Portraiture to Poetry: PCK Prem’s History of Contemporary Indian English Poetry An Appraisal

By : Suparna Ghosh

Page No: 68-80

Author :
Suparna Ghosh
Is a writer and painter from Toronto, Canada. She retired from her position as an adjudicator in a Quasi-Judicial Tribunal with the Federal Government of Canada. Suparna has published three books of poetry - Sandalwood Thoughts, a collection of poems and drawings; Dots and Crosses, a long prose poem with sketches with a CD version, where she reads the poem to the accompaniment of original music; and Occasionally, which features poems in free verse and the ghazal form of poetry in classical Indo-Persian style, one of which has been translated into Urdu and set to music in Occasional Ghazal. Among other awards, she won the grand prize for the Artists Embassy International Dancing Poetry Competition, and her poem was choreographed and staged at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. She has exhibited her paintings in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and New Delhi.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/POET.2021.34.01.10