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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>"'''The Coffin Maker'''" is a poem by the Indian English poet [[Gopi Kottoor|Gopi Krishnan Kottoor]]. The poem won Second Prize in the Sixth All India Poetry Competition conducted by [[The Poetry Society (India)]] in 1995.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indianpoetry.org/comp6.htm |title= Award Winning Poems – AIPC 1995}}</ref> This was the first major literary award for Kottoor, who went on to win four more major poetry awards at All India Poetry Competition.<br />
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==Comments and criticism==<br />
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The poem has received positive reviews since its first publication in 1995 in the book ''Emerging Voices''<ref>''Poetry India – Emerging Voices'' by H K Kaul, ''Virgo Publications'', 1998</ref> and has since been widely anthologised.<ref>''Contemporary Indian Poets'' by Jeet Thayil, ''Fulcrum'', Bloodaxe Books, 1996</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 has become very popular in [[Indian English literature]] and has been widely anthologised.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[The Poetry Society (India)]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* {{Official website|http://www.shreenarayanstudios.com/coffinmaker/}}<br />
*[http://www.indianpoetry.org/comp6.htm Sixth National Poetry Competition 1995 – Award Winners]<br />
*[http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/gopi-krishnan-kottoor/the-coffin-maker/ ''The Coffin Maker'' – The Full Poem]<br />
*[http://www.poemhunter.com/gopi-krishnan-kottoor/biography/ Gopi Kottoor and His Poems]<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 "Popular Indian Poems"]<br />
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[[Category:Indian English poems]]<br />
[[Category:1995 poems]]<br />
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