In contrast to many poets who paddle poor prose cut into lines of poetry, Dr Singh’s poems are sober, mature, and disciplined. Though written in free verse they are yet compact. Neither the words nor emotions go astray. No cliché exists there. Only the power of plain words on display.
In essence his poetry is not for the soft-headed. It will scare the puritans and taunt the purists because the poet lifts the so-called unclean words of the street and gives them a new dignity. In the history of Indian English poetry, I guess, it has been attempted for the first time on such a scale. No doubt it has its dangers. But in the borderless world of today many buffers are at hand. And to the one who has chosen the uncommon path in style and language it acts as the air of spring that drives him to the house of his mate, every day, every hour.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ram Krishna Singh
Ram Krishan Singh, born, brought up and educated in Varanasi, is university professor whose main fields of interest consist of Indian English for Specific Purposes, especially for Science and technology. he has authored over 150 academic articles, 160 book reviews, and 31 books, including eleven collections of poems, namely, my Silence (1985), Memories Unmemoried (1988), Music Must Sound (1990), Flight of Phoenix (1990), Two Poets: R.K. Singh (I Do Not Question) Ujjal Singh Bahri (The Grammar of My Life) (1994), My Silence and Other Selected Poems: 1974-1994 (1996), Stone Drop Pebble (a haiku collection, jointly with Catherine Mair and patricia Prime, (1999), Cover to cover: A Collection of Poems (Jointly with Ujjal Singh bahri, 2002), Poem in Terris (a trilogy collection with Myriam Pierri and Giocanni Campisi, 2003), and The River Returns (a collection of tanka and haiku, 2006). His poems have been anthologized in over 140 publications and translated into French, Russian, Spanish, Romanian, Chinese, Japanese, Slovene, Bulgarian, German, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Serbian, Croatian, Esperanto, kannada, Tamil, and Bangla. A book of criticism on his poetry, new Indian English Poetry: an Alternative Voice: R.K. Singh (ed. I. K. Sharma), appeared in 2004. His bibliography appears in some 30 publications in the UK, USA, India and elsewhere. R.K. Singh is professor of English & head Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.
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