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 writing to them is synonymous with wife life and living. It is their collective creative effort that makes them significant. They think intuitively, turn personal, inward, godward, or spirit-ward, just as they reflect on contemporary socioeconomic, political and religious corruption, intellectual confusion, gender prejudices, sex, and values that are on longer effective. Their capability lies in their emotional sensitivity, their urge for changing the situation, and for being in peace with themselves. They express sex as something metaphysically serious: Their body images illuminate the realities of life just as they explore the exterior body and the interior psychology as part of their self realisation. They seek to create a new culture as they rationalize how we ought to live in future. They demonstrate lyrical simplicity, emotional curiosity, and poetic sincerity.
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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