Indian Writing In English: Pre Independence

Parmar Dipali K.Roll No: 30Topic: Unit 5 ‘Women Poet’ ( Pre-Independence )M.A. Sem. 1Batch: 2015-’17Email Id: dipaliparmar247@gmail.comDepartment of English (M.K.B.U.)

Nine

Indian

Women

Poets

Poets: 1. Tara Patel

2. Eunice de Souza3. Imtiaz Dharker

4. Kamala Das5. Mamta Kalia

6. Melanie Silgardo7. Charmayne D’Souza

8. Sujatha Bhatt9. Sunita Agarwal

About The Book1. Nine women poets has composed combinedly one book.2. The emotions and issues dealt with in the poems in this

collection come very close to what ordinary women go through.

3. The language used to convey the thoughts, feelings and reflections is fairly simple so that even a person who is not habituated to read poetry, could understand.

Sujatha Bhatt• Sujatha Bhatt was born

in Ahmadabad, Gujarat and brought up in Pune until 1968, when she emigrated to United States with her family.

• She got degree of Master in Fine Arts from University of Iowa.

• She received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award for her first collection Brunizem. 

• Bhatt was a visiting fellow at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania and currently works as a freelance writer.

• She has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets.

• Combining Gujarati and English, Bhatt writes “Indian-English” rather than Anglo-Indian poetry.

• Her poems have appeared in various journals in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, and Canada.

• Michael Schmidt (poet) observed that… “Her free verse is fast-moving, urgent

with narratives, softly spoken. Her cadence is natural, her diction undecorated.”

• Bhatt has been recognized as a distinctive voice in contemporary poetry.

Her Poetry Collection

• 1988 Brunizem 

• 1991 Monkey Shadows 

• 1995 The Stinking Rose 

• 1997 Point No Point

• 2000: Augatora

• 2002: The Colour of Solitude

• 2008: Pure Lizard

References• www.wikipedia.com

• www.googlebooks.com

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