RAM KRISHNA SINGH

Collects all of my published poetry books. Also provides an uptodate view of my poetry, especially haiku and tanka.

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Location: Govindpur, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

Ram Krishna Singh is an Indian poet and academic, whose main fields of interest consist of Indian English writing, especially poetry, and English for Specific Purposes, especially for science and technology. Born on 31 December 1950 in Varanasi, India, he has authored more than 160 research articles,170 book reviews and 63 books. His works have been anthologized in over 230 publications. A winner of several awards and honours, and translated into over 30 languages, Dr Singh's poems have been noted for haiku-inspired brevity, existential introspections, and erotic minimalism, and explored in several M.Phil. and Ph.D. theses. Till recently, Professor of English at IIT-ISM, Dhanbad, he is now happily retired and pursuing his literary interests and promoting his poetry. .

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Mirror

Lost in mirror
models in lingerie:
winter rain

--R.K.Singh

DAWN

Wintry dawn--
sleeping under a car
a stray dog

--R.K.Singh

Thursday, January 20, 2011

WAR

a soldier
fighting the war--
night inside


R.K.Singh

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

ESCAPE

To avoid nagging
he gulps down pegs and pretends
every thing's normal:
keeping the mouth shut, hiding
whiskeyed breath and meditating

--R.K.Singh

Butterfly

Shadows waver
in the dewy grass--
butterfly

--R.K.Singh