ABOUT THE POET

Ram Krishna Singh, born, brought up and educated in Varanasi, is a university professor whose main fields of interest consist of Indian English writing, especially poetry, and English for Specific Purposes, especially for science and technology. He has been teaching English language skills to UG and PG students of earth and mineral sciences and engineering for over three decades.

He has authored more than 160 research articles, 170 book reviews and 36 books, including Savitri: A Spiritual Epic (1984), Indian English Writing: 1981-1985: Experiments with Expression (1987, rept 1991), Using English in Science and Technology (1988, rept 2000, 2010), Recent Indian English Poets: Expressions and Beliefs (1992), Psychic Knot: Search for Tolerance in Indian English Fiction (1998), New Zealand Literature: Some Recent Trends (1998), Multiple Choice General English for UPSC Competition (2001), Communication in English: Grammar and Composition (2003), Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri: Essays on Love, Life and Death (2005), Teaching English for Specific Purposes: A Evolving Experience (2005), Voices of the Present: Critical Essays on Some Indian English Poets (2006), English as a Second Language: Experience into Essays (2007), English Language Teaching: Some Aspects Recollected (2008), and Mechanics of Research Writing (2010).

His published poetry collections include My Silence (1985), Above the Earth’s Green (1997), My Silence and Other Selected Poems (1996), The River Returns (2006), Sexless Solitude and Other Poems (2009), and Sense and Silence: Collected Poems (2010). Some of his poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Romanian, Albanian, Crimean Tatar, Arabic, Farsi, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian, Croatian Slovene, Bulgarian, Italian, German, Portuguese, Greek, Esperanto, Hindi, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil, and Bangla.

Two books on his poetry, namely, New Indian English Poetry: An Alternative Voice (ed: I.K. Sharma, 2004) and R.K. Singh’s Mind and Art: A Symphony of Expressions (ed: Rajni Singh, 2011) present a comprehensive picture of his creativity since the 1970s. Professor Singh’s biobibliography appears in some 35 publications in the UK, USA, India and elsewhere.

A member of several organizations and editorial boards, Professor Singh is a recipient of many awards and honours, including an Honorary LittD from the World Academy of Arts & Culture, Taiwan, 1984, Fellowship of the International Writers and Artists Association, USA, 1988, Michael Madhusudan Award, Kolkata, 1994, Ritsumeikan University Peace Museum Award, Kyoto, 1999, Certificate of Honour and Nyusen Prize, Kumamoto, 2000, 2008, Universal Peace Ambassador, 2006, Lifetime Achievement Award, Chennai, 2009, and distinguished membership of the IAPWA, Albania, 2012

Well-known as an ESPist and poet, Professor Singh currently heads the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad 826004, India. Email: profrksingh@yahoo.comWeb: http://rksinghpoet.blogspot.com http://www.ismdhanbad.ac.in/cv/pub_ramkrishna.pdf