Some Creepy Subterfuge and Other Poems

Authors

  • R P Singh Director International Cell, University of Lucknow, Lucknow.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56062/

Abstract

The fragmented psyche of modern life is critically analyzed in these five poems of the collection Some Creepy Subterfuge and Other Poems and swings between the close realm of psychological insecurity and the bigger emotional and ontological anxiety. The works outline the intersection of thoughts, desires, and aspirations with disappointment and postponement through the evocative image that touches upon fog, winter moons, high-speed trains, caravans dissolving, and an overall impression of the apocalyptic dread. The themes of illusion, delusion, persistence of unaddressed questions, and indifference are revisited throughout the poems, thus yielding a landscape where the turmoil of the inner world clashes with the chaos of the outer world. However, in this ambivalence, the poems hold to a delicate desire of affection, meaning, and the unadulterated, natural growth of the self.

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Author Biography

  • R P Singh, Director International Cell, University of Lucknow, Lucknow.

    R.P.Singh (Prof Ravindra Pratap Singh) is a national  award winning  playwright , poet and Professor . He is holding the position of Director International Cell, University of Lucknow. He has worked  on several  foreign teaching and research assignments like  those  at the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest,  University of Rouen, France, Maison des Sciences de l’ Homme, Paris,  and Writer in Residence , Uzbekistan, Tajakistan, Kazakstan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. His  writings on diverse subjects of literature, culture, art and Indian Knowledge  Traditions   are published from leading international publications like Oxford University Press, Sage ,  Springer , Blackwell , Macmillan ,ABC Clio , Warsaw University Press , New York: Springer, ME Sharp Incorporation USA ,LPP Publishing Columbia, to name a few.His plays; Flea Market and other Plays (2014), Ecologue (2014), When Brancho Flies (2014), Shakespeare ki Saat Ratein (2015), Antardwand (2016), Chaudah Farvari(2019), Chain Kahan ab Nain Hamare (2018) have received critical acclaim, and wide popularity. Banjaran : The Muse (2008),Cloud ,Moon and a Little Girl (2017),  Pathik and Pravah (2016) and Neeli Aankhon Wali Ladki (2017), Adventures of Funny and Bana (2018) ,The World of Mavie(2020), Two Violet Flowers (2020) Project Penultimate (2021) Ek Anant Faila Akash(2022) represent his poetry. A frequently anthologized poet in approximately 25  prestigious anthologies, and regular broadcast from radio ,he has published more than 500 poems and popular articles in newspapers and magazines.  He is the recipient of 26 awards for his creative writing and teaching, including prestigious Shikshak Shree Puraskar , Mohan Rakesh Puraskar , Bhartendu Harishchandra Puraskar, Dr Ram Kumar Varma Natak Puraskar, Amar Ujala Awadh ki Shaan Samman. He has been a panellist, chair and interviewer in many sessions at national and international seminars, conferences and literature festivals

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Published

2025-12-25

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 12 (2025): December, Creative Saplings

Section

Poetry

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How to Cite

R P Singh. “Some Creepy Subterfuge and Other Poems”. Creative Saplings, vol. 4, no. 12, Dec. 2025, pp. 1-6, https://doi.org/10.56062/.

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