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<div>"'''A Farmer's Ghost'''" is a popular English poem by the Indian poet and writer [[Anju Makhija]]. The poem won First Prize in the Fifth All India Poetry Competition conducted by [[The Poetry Society (India)]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indianpoetry.org/comp5.htm |title=Award Winning Poems - AIPC 1994 |access-date=2014-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317101531/http://indianpoetry.org/comp5.htm |archive-date=2015-03-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The poem has been widely cited and anthologised in reputed journals<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=167 |title=Award Winning Poems - AIPC 1994 |access-date=2014-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407102223/http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=167 |archive-date=2014-04-07 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> and scholarly volumes on contemporary Indian poetry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://poetrysplash.tripod.com/indiapoets.htm |title= Award Winning Poems - AIPC 1994}}</ref><br />
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==Comments and criticism==<br />
The poem has received positive reviews since its first publication in 1995 in the anthology on Indian Poetry ''Emerging Voices''.<ref>''Poetry India - Emerging Voices'' by H K Kaul, ''Virgo Publications'', 1995.</ref> The poem has been frequently quoted in scholarly analysis of contemporary [[Indian poetry in English|Indian English poetry]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020324/spectrum/book10.htm |title= Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets – Rana Nayar in ''The Tribune''}}</ref> The poem is regarded by critics as a jewel in contemporary Indian poetry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.intralinea.org/monographs/zanettin/sr/editormail.htm |title= India Star Literary Review - Shampa Sinha's ''Siesta''}}</ref><br />
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==See alse==<br />
*[[The Poetry Society (India)]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317101531/http://indianpoetry.org/comp5.htm Fifth National Poetry Competition 1994 - Award Winners]<br />
*[http://bigbridge.org/BB17/poetry/indianpoetryanthology/Anju_Makhija.html Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry - Anju Makhija]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121216063849/http://www.indiawrites.org/poetry/poetry.html ''India Writes'' - Contemporary Indian Poetry]<br />
*[http://www.duckduckgo.com/?q=Indian+poems "Best Indian Poems"]<br />
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