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	{{short description\|~~English language~~ Indian poet,}}		{{short description\|Indian poet (1921–2017)}}
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	'''Shiv K. Kumar''' (16 August 1921, [[Lahore]], [[British India]] – 1 March 2017, [[Hyderabad]], [[India]])<ref name="Muse India 2017">{{cite web \| title=Prof Shiv K Kumar no more \| website=Welcome to Muse India \| date=2017-03-02 \| url=http://www.museindia.com/newsview.asp?id=189 \| access-date=2017-03-28 \| url-status=dead \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329142108/http://www.museindia.com/newsview.asp?id=189 \| archive-date=29 March 2017 \| df=dmy-all }}</ref> was an Indian English-language [[poet]], [[playwright]], [[novelist]], and [[short story writer]].<ref>{{cite book\|title=International Who's Who in Poetry 2005\|year=2004\|publisher=Europa Publications\|isbn=978-1857432695\|page=889}}</ref> His grandfather late Tulsi Das Kumar was a school teacher and his father Bishan Das Kumar, was a retired headmaster. The letter 'K' stands for Krishna, i.e. Shiv Krishna Kumar.		'''Shiv K. Kumar''' (16 August 1921, [[Lahore]], [[British India]] – 1 March 2017, [[Hyderabad]], [[India]])<ref name="Muse India 2017">{{cite web \| title=Prof Shiv K Kumar no more \| website=Welcome to Muse India \| date=2017-03-02 \| url=http://www.museindia.com/newsview.asp?id=189 \| access-date=2017-03-28 \| url-status=dead \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329142108/http://www.museindia.com/newsview.asp?id=189 \| archive-date=29 March 2017 \| df=dmy-all }}</ref> was an Indian English-language [[poet]], [[playwright]], [[novelist]], and [[short story writer]].<ref>{{cite book\|title=International Who's Who in Poetry 2005\|year=2004\|publisher=Europa Publications\|isbn=978-1857432695\|page=889}}</ref> His grandfather late Tulsi Das Kumar was a school teacher and his father Bishan Das Kumar, was a retired headmaster. The letter 'K' stands for Krishna, i.e. Shiv Krishna Kumar.
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	In 1943, he joined D.A.V. College Lahore as a lecturer, but moved to Delhi during the [[Partition of India\|partition]]. After brief stints as lecturer at [[Hansraj College]], [[Delhi]], and as programme officer at the [[All India Radio]], [[Delhi]], he left India to join [[Fitzwilliam College]], [[Cambridge]] in 1950. In 1956, he received his PhD in [[English Literature]] from the [[University of Cambridge]]. The topic of his dissertation was 'Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness Novel'. His research supervisor was Professor [[David Daiches]]. He was also tutored by the influential British critic [[F.R. Leavis]] during his stay in Cambridge.		In 1943, he joined D.A.V. College Lahore as a lecturer, but moved to Delhi during the [[Partition of India\|partition]]. After brief stints as lecturer at [[Hansraj College]], [[Delhi]], and as programme officer at the [[All India Radio]], [[Delhi]], he left India to join [[Fitzwilliam College]], [[Cambridge]] in 1950. In 1956, he received his PhD in [[English Literature]] from the [[University of Cambridge]]. The topic of his dissertation was 'Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness Novel'. His research supervisor was Professor [[David Daiches]]. He was also tutored by the influential British critic [[F.R. Leavis]] during his stay in Cambridge.

	Shiv K. Kumar ~~taught~~ [[English literature]] at [[Osmania University]], Hyderabad~~, and the [[University of Hyderabad]]~~. ~~During 1972–74~~, he ~~was a UGC National Lecturer in English. He~~ was the founder Head of the ~~Department~~ of English ~~and the first Dean of the School of Humanities~~ at the University of Hyderabad. He ~~retired~~ as ~~the Vice-Chancellor (I/c)~~ of ~~the~~ University ~~of Hyderabad~~ in ~~1980~~. He was the "Distinguished Visiting Professor" at the Universities of Oklahoma and Northern Iowa, and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Drake, Hofstra, Marshall, etc. He was also a visiting fulbright fellow at [[Yale University]].		Shiv K. Kumar worked as a professor and chair of the department [[English literature]] at [[Osmania University]] Hyderabad primarily from 1959 to 1976 . Subsequently, he was the founder Head of the department of English at the [[University of Hyderabad]], acting as its vice - chancellor and first dean of humanities until his retirement in 1980 . He returned to serve as a UGC emeritus professor of English at Osmania University from 1984 to 1986 .During 1972–74, he was a UGC National Lecturer in English. He was the "Distinguished Visiting Professor" at the Universities of Oklahoma and Northern Iowa, and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Drake, Hofstra, Marshall, etc. He was also a visiting fulbright fellow at [[Yale University]].
	He was nominated as a member of the Jury for the [[Neustadt International Prize for Literature]] (USA, 1981).		He was nominated as a member of the Jury for the [[Neustadt International Prize for Literature]] (USA, 1981).

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	In 1978, he was elected as a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]], London<ref>{{cite web\|url = http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows\|title = Royal Society of Literature All Fellows\|publisher = Royal Society of Literature\|access-date = 9 August 2010\|url-status = dead\|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100305070326/http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows\|archive-date = 5 March 2010\|df = dmy-all}}</ref> during his stay in England as Commonwealth Visiting Professor of English at the [[University of Kent]] at [[Canterbury]]. He received the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1987 for his collection of poems ''Trapfalls in the Sky''. In 2001, he was awarded with the [[Padma Bhushan]] for his contribution to literature.		In 1978, he was elected as a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]], London<ref>{{cite web\|url = http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows\|title = Royal Society of Literature All Fellows\|publisher = Royal Society of Literature\|access-date = 9 August 2010\|url-status = dead\|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100305070326/http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows\|archive-date = 5 March 2010\|df = dmy-all}}</ref> during his stay in England as Commonwealth Visiting Professor of English at the [[University of Kent]] at [[Canterbury]]. He received the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1987 for his collection of poems ''Trapfalls in the Sky''. In 2001, he was awarded with the [[Padma Bhushan]] for his contribution to literature.

	He lived in [[Hyderabad, India\|Hyderabad]] and was married to Madhu and they had two children.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Chittaranjan Mishra: Metaphors of Double Vision : Shiv K. Kumar\|url=http://www.museindia.com/regularcontent.asp?issid=45&id=3664#top\|publisher=Muse India\|access-date=25 April 2017\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014122709/http://www.museindia.com/regularcontent.asp?issid=45&id=3664#top\|archive-date=14 October 2012\|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=~~http~~://harimohanparuvu.blogspot.com/2010/11/shiv-k-kumar-chance-meeting-with-tall.html\|title = Harimohan paruvu: Shiv K. Kumar - A Chance Meeting with a Tall Literary Figure\|date = 28 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/08/06/stories/1306129x.htm\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125183548/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/08/06/stories/1306129x.htm\|url-status=usurped\|archive-date=25 January 2013\|title = Love across religious divide \|work= The Hindu\|access-date= 8 August 2010}}</ref>		He lived in [[Hyderabad, India\|Hyderabad]] and was married to Madhu and they had two children.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Chittaranjan Mishra: Metaphors of Double Vision : Shiv K. Kumar\|url=http://www.museindia.com/regularcontent.asp?issid=45&id=3664#top\|publisher=Muse India\|access-date=25 April 2017\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014122709/http://www.museindia.com/regularcontent.asp?issid=45&id=3664#top\|archive-date=14 October 2012\|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://harimohanparuvu.blogspot.com/2010/11/shiv-k-kumar-chance-meeting-with-tall.html\|title = Harimohan paruvu: Shiv K. Kumar - A Chance Meeting with a Tall Literary Figure\|date = 28 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/08/06/stories/1306129x.htm\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125183548/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/08/06/stories/1306129x.htm\|url-status=usurped\|archive-date=25 January 2013\|title = Love across religious divide \|work= The Hindu\|access-date= 8 August 2010}}</ref>

	==Works==		==Works==
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	'''As Poet''' :		'''As Poet''' :

	* ''Articulate Silences'', [[Writers Workshop]], [[Calcutta]], 1970		* ''Articulate Silences'', [[Writers Workshop (publisher)\|Writers Workshop]], [[Calcutta]], 1970
	* ''Cobwebs in the Sun'', [[Tata McGraw-Hill]], [[New Delhi]], 1974		* ''Cobwebs in the Sun'', [[Tata McGraw-Hill]], [[New Delhi]], 1974
	* ''Subterfuges'', [[Oxford University Press]], [[New Delhi]], 1976 (includes the oft anthologised poem ''Indian Women'')<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://archive.org/stream/gatheredgrace029041mbp#page/n51/mode/2up\|title = Gathered Grace\|year = 1991\|publisher = Sterling Publishers New Delhi}}</ref>		* ''Subterfuges'', [[Oxford University Press]], [[New Delhi]], 1976 (includes the oft anthologised poem ''Indian Women'')<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://archive.org/stream/gatheredgrace029041mbp#page/n51/mode/2up\|title = Gathered Grace\|year = 1991\|publisher = Sterling Publishers New Delhi}}</ref>
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	== Appearances in the following poetry anthologies ==		== Appearances in the following poetry anthologies ==
	* ''The Golden Treasure of [[Writers Workshop]] Poetry'' (2008) ed. by Rubana Huq and published by [[Writers Workshop]], [[Calcutta]]<ref>{{cite ~~web~~ \|title=Rubana Huq, ed. The Golden Treasury of Writers Workshop Poetry~~. Review : ASIATIC, VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1, JUNE 2009~~ \|url=http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/82/67 \|~~website~~=~~journals.iium.edu.my~~ \|~~publisher~~=~~journals.iium.edu.my~~ \|access-date=4 September 2018}}</ref>		* ''The Golden Treasure of [[Writers Workshop (publisher)\|Writers Workshop]] Poetry'' (2008) ed. by Rubana Huq and published by [[Writers Workshop (publisher)\|Writers Workshop]], [[Calcutta]]<ref>{{cite journal \|title= Rubana Huq, ed. The Golden Treasury of Writers Workshop Poetry\|url=http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/82/67 \|journal=Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature \|date=15 June 2009 \|volume=3 \|issue=1 \|pages=126–129 \|access-date=4 September 2018\|last1=Mandal \|first1=Somdatta }}</ref>
	* ''A New Book of Indian Poems In English'' (2000) ed. by [[Gopi Kottoor]] and published by [[Poetry Chain]] and [[Writers Workshop]], [[Calcutta]]		* ''A New Book of Indian Poems In English'' (2000) ed. by [[Gopi Kottoor]] and published by [[Poetry Chain]] and [[Writers Workshop (publisher)\|Writers Workshop]], [[Calcutta]]
	* ''Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets'' (1976) ed. by [[R. Parthasarathy]] and published by [[Oxford University Press]], [[New Delhi]]<ref>{{cite web \|title=Ten 20th Century Indian Poets \|url=https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/parthasarathy-1976-ten-20th-century.html \|website~~=cse.iitk.ac.in \|publisher~~=cse.iitk.ac.in \|access-date=23 August 2018}}</ref>		* ''Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets'' (1976) ed. by [[R. Parthasarathy]] and published by [[Oxford University Press]], [[New Delhi]]<ref>{{cite web \|title=Ten 20th Century Indian Poets \|url=https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/parthasarathy-1976-ten-20th-century.html \|website=cse.iitk.ac.in \|access-date=23 August 2018}}</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==
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	==External links==		==External links==
	*{{cite journal\|title= "Beyond the empiric point": Poetry of Shiv K. Kumar}}		*{{cite journal\|title= "Beyond the empiric point": Poetry of Shiv K. Kumar}}
	*[http://www.flipkart.com/shiv-kumar-post-colonial-poet/8126900474-ou23f3p6de Shiv K. Kumar As A Post-Colonial Poet]		*[https://archive.today/20120523191940/http://www.flipkart.com/shiv-kumar-post-colonial-poet/8126900474-ou23f3p6de Shiv K. Kumar As A Post-Colonial Poet]

	{{PadmaBhushanAwardRecipients 2000–09}}		{{PadmaBhushanAwardRecipients 2000–09}}
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{{short description|English language Indian poet,}}
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'''Shiv K. Kumar''' (16 August 1921, [[Lahore]], [[British India]] – 1 March 2017, [[Hyderabad]], [[India]])<ref name="Muse India 2017">{{cite web | title=Prof Shiv K Kumar no more | website=Welcome to Muse India | date=2017-03-02 | url=http://www.museindia.com/newsview.asp?id=189 | access-date=2017-03-28 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329142108/http://www.museindia.com/newsview.asp?id=189 | archive-date=29 March 2017 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> was an Indian English-language [[poet]], [[playwright]], [[novelist]], and [[short story writer]].<ref>{{cite book|title=International Who's Who in Poetry 2005|year=2004|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1857432695|page=889}}</ref> His grandfather late Tulsi Das Kumar was a school teacher and his father Bishan Das Kumar, was a retired headmaster. The letter 'K' stands for Krishna, i.e. Shiv Krishna Kumar.

==Early life and education==
Shiv K. Kumar was born in [[Lahore]], [[British India]], in 1921. He matriculated from [[Dayanand Anglo Vedic]] High School in 1937. He studied for his B.A. at [[Government College, Lahore]] and his M.A. at [[Forman Christian College]], [[Lahore]] (1943).<ref name=passage>He was also tutored by the influential British critic [[F.R. Leavis]] during his stay in [[Cambridge]].
{{cite book
| title = A passage to Shiv K. Kumar: from agony to ecstasy
| author = Prabhat K. Singh
| publisher = Sarup & Sons, 2002, 348 pages
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8MaifFGMTa0C&pg=PA332
| isbn = 9788176252362
| year = 2001
}}</ref>

==Career==
In 1943, he joined D.A.V. College Lahore as a lecturer, but moved to Delhi during the [[Partition of India|partition]]. After brief stints as lecturer at [[Hansraj College]], [[Delhi]], and as programme officer at the [[All India Radio]], [[Delhi]], he left India to join [[Fitzwilliam College]], [[Cambridge]] in 1950. In 1956, he received his PhD in [[English Literature]] from the [[University of Cambridge]]. The topic of his dissertation was 'Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness Novel'. His research supervisor was Professor [[David Daiches]]. He was also tutored by the influential British critic [[F.R. Leavis]] during his stay in Cambridge.

Shiv K. Kumar taught [[English literature]] at [[Osmania University]], Hyderabad, and the [[University of Hyderabad]]. During 1972–74, he was a UGC National Lecturer in English. He was the founder Head of the Department of English and the first Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Hyderabad. He retired as the Vice-Chancellor (I/c) of the University of Hyderabad in 1980. He was the "Distinguished Visiting Professor" at the Universities of Oklahoma and Northern Iowa, and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Drake, Hofstra, Marshall, etc. He was also a visiting fulbright fellow at [[Yale University]].
He was nominated as a member of the Jury for the [[Neustadt International Prize for Literature]] (USA, 1981).

Several of his poems and short stories have been broadcast over the [[BBC]]—and published in Indian, British, American, Canadian and Australian journals and magazines. They have also been translated into several Indian and foreign languages.

In 1978, he was elected as a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]], London<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows|title = Royal Society of Literature All Fellows|publisher = Royal Society of Literature|access-date = 9 August 2010|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100305070326/http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows|archive-date = 5 March 2010|df = dmy-all}}</ref> during his stay in England as Commonwealth Visiting Professor of English at the [[University of Kent]] at [[Canterbury]]. He received the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1987 for his collection of poems ''Trapfalls in the Sky''. In 2001, he was awarded with the [[Padma Bhushan]] for his contribution to literature.

He lived in [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]] and was married to Madhu and they had two children.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chittaranjan Mishra: Metaphors of Double Vision : Shiv K. Kumar|url=http://www.museindia.com/regularcontent.asp?issid=45&id=3664#top|publisher=Muse India|access-date=25 April 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014122709/http://www.museindia.com/regularcontent.asp?issid=45&id=3664#top|archive-date=14 October 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://harimohanparuvu.blogspot.com/2010/11/shiv-k-kumar-chance-meeting-with-tall.html|title = Harimohan paruvu: Shiv K. Kumar - A Chance Meeting with a Tall Literary Figure|date = 28 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/08/06/stories/1306129x.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125183548/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/08/06/stories/1306129x.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=25 January 2013|title = Love across religious divide |work= The Hindu|access-date= 8 August 2010}}</ref>

==Works==

His published works include:

'''As Poet''' :

* ''Articulate Silences'', [[Writers Workshop]], [[Calcutta]], 1970
* ''Cobwebs in the Sun'', [[Tata McGraw-Hill]], [[New Delhi]], 1974
* ''Subterfuges'', [[Oxford University Press]], [[New Delhi]], 1976 (includes the oft anthologised poem ''Indian Women'')<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/gatheredgrace029041mbp#page/n51/mode/2up|title = Gathered Grace|year = 1991|publisher = Sterling Publishers New Delhi}}</ref>
* ''Woodpeckers'', [[Sidgwick & Jackson]], [[London]], 1979
* ''Trapfalls in the Sky'', [[Macmillan Publishers (United States)|Macmillan]], Madras, 1986 ([[Sahitya Akademi Award for English]], 1987; translated into Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.)
* ''Woolgathering'', [[Orient Longman]], [[Hyderabad]], 1995
* ''Thus Spake the Buddha'', UBSPD, [[New Delhi]], 2001
* ''Losing My Way'', Peacock Books, [[New Delhi]], 2008<ref>excerpts: [http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/kumar-2008-losing-my-way.html book excerptise]</ref>
* ''Voice of Buddha: A Poetic Transcreation of The Dhammapada'', Atlantic, [[New Delhi]], 2008
* ''Intezar'' (A Collection of Poems in Urdu), Educational Publishing House, [[New Delhi]], 2009
* ''Tum Kaho Main Sunoon'' (A Collection of Poems in Urdu), Educational Publishing House, [[New Delhi]], 2010
* ''Which of My Selves Do You Wish to Speak to? Selected Poems'', [[Penguin Books]], [[New Delhi]], 2011
* ''Mujasma-e-Husn'' (A Collection of Poems in Urdu), (MS)
* ''Where Have the Dead Gone?'', (MS)
His individual poems have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''Poetry Review'' (London), ''Ariel'', ''Southern Review'', ''Hemisphere Meanjin'', ''Western Humanities Review'', ''Trafika'' (Prague), etc.

'''As Playwright''':
* ''The Last Wedding Anniversary'', [[Macmillan Publishers (United States)|Macmillan]], 1975. Produced by the Indian National Theatre, and also translated into Urdu as ''Shaadi Ki Akhri Saal Girah'', Shero Hikmat, [[Hyderabad]], 1977.

'''As Novelist''':
* ''The Bone's Prayer'', Arnold Heinemann, 1979. Also translated into Hindi as ''Atmahatya'', Rajpal & Sons, [[New Delhi]], 1980.
* ''Nude Before God'', Vanguard Press, [[New York City|New York]], 1983—and Penguin Books, [[New Delhi]], 1987
* ''A River with Three Banks'', UBSPD, [[New Delhi]], 1998—Translated into Hindi as ''Teen Kinaron Vali Nadi'', Saransh, [[New Delhi]], 1999
* ''Infatuation'', UBSPD, [[New Delhi]], 2000.
* ''Two Mirrors at the Ashram'', Penguin, [[New Delhi]], 2007
* ''Rough Passage to the Bodhi Tree'' (The Buddha: From Renunciation to Enlightenment), (MS)

'''As Short Story Writer''':
* ''Beyond Love & Other Stories'', Vikas, [[New Delhi]], 1980
* ''To Nun with Love & Other Stories'', Orient Longman, [[Hyderabad]], 2001
* ''Face Behind the Mirror & Other Stories'', (MS)

'''As Translator''':
* ''Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz'' (Urdu to English)

'''As Critic''':
* ''Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness Novel'', [[New York University Press]], [[New York City|New York]], 1963
* ''Critical Approaches to Fiction'' (edited in collaboration with Keith F. McKean), [[McGraw-Hill]], New York, 1969—and several other works of literary criticism.
His research papers have appeared in such scholarly journals as ''Modern Philology'', ''Modern Language Review'', ''Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism'', ''Modern Language Quarterly'', ''Modern Language Notes'', ''English Studies'', etc.

'''Miscellaneous''':
* ''The Mahabharata'', [[HarperCollins]], New Delhi, 2011. Also being translated into Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, etc.
* ''Conversations with Celebrities'', (MS)

'''Critical Books on Shiv K. Kumar''':
* Prabhat K. Singh, ''A Passage to Shiv K. Kumar'' (Swarup & Sons), [[New Delhi]], 2001
* Bijay K. Das, ''Shiv K. Kumar as a Post-Colonial Poet'' (Atlantic), [[New Delhi]], 2001
* R. Shankar, ''Shiv K. Kumar's Poetry: Imagery and Symbolism'' (ABD), [[Jaipur]], 2010
* ''The Journal of South Asian Literature'' (Michigan) brought out a special issue on his writings in 1990.

== Appearances in the following poetry anthologies ==
* ''The Golden Treasure of [[Writers Workshop]] Poetry'' (2008) ed. by Rubana Huq and published by [[Writers Workshop]], [[Calcutta]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Rubana Huq, ed. The Golden Treasury of Writers Workshop Poetry. Review : ASIATIC, VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1, JUNE 2009 |url=http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/82/67 |website=journals.iium.edu.my |publisher=journals.iium.edu.my |access-date=4 September 2018}}</ref>
* ''A New Book of Indian Poems In English'' (2000) ed. by [[Gopi Kottoor]] and published by [[Poetry Chain]] and [[Writers Workshop]], [[Calcutta]]
* ''Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets'' (1976) ed. by [[R. Parthasarathy]] and published by [[Oxford University Press]], [[New Delhi]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Ten 20th Century Indian Poets |url=https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/parthasarathy-1976-ten-20th-century.html |website=cse.iitk.ac.in |publisher=cse.iitk.ac.in |access-date=23 August 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
{{portal|Poetry}}
* [[Indian English Literature]]
* [[Indian Writing in English]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cite journal|title= "Beyond the empiric point": Poetry of Shiv K. Kumar}}
*[http://www.flipkart.com/shiv-kumar-post-colonial-poet/8126900474-ou23f3p6de Shiv K. Kumar As A Post-Colonial Poet]

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