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 ...
Thought not chronologically arranged the poems in Sense and Silence cover a span of over thirty-five years, reshuffling the past and providing a composite view of R K Singh’s creativity as an Indian English poet, who is remarkable for having chosen his own uncommon path, combining the riches of tradition with scintillating modernity, mysticism, and eerie shadows. Brief, lyrical, and down-to-earth, the poet displays the power of plain words, scaring the ...
Quite a number of contemporary Indian English Poets, now in their 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, with a 20th century consciousness, have learnt to live with a globalisation of communication, Information technology revolution and world wide web culture. They have been trying to reach out to a larger audience and creating their identities under many different appearances. They have been seeking to know themselves as composites, contradictory, and even incompatible. Poetry ...