Stephen Gill\'s Poetry : A Panorama of World Peace

Contents: Preface. 1. Stephen Gill--the bard of world peace: a new historicist analysis of his poetic musings/K.V. Dominic. 2. Stephen Gill\'s The Flame: an appraisal/D.C. Chambial. 3. Stephen Gill and peace/A.K. Choudhary. 4. Remembering partition: faces in Stephen Gill\'s prefaces/Sudhir K. Arora. 5. The forlorn face of women in Stephen Gill\'s Shrine/R. Aanandam and G. Baskaran. 6. The capital of the Media in Stephen Gill\'s The Flame/G. Dominic Savio and S.J. Kala. 7. An interview with Dr. Stephen Gill/Anuradha Sharma. 8. Stephen Gill: the messiah in a war-torn world/Ladha Nandakumar. 9. Ravan and the maniac messiahs: a comparative study of Tulsi Das Goswami\'s Ramcharit Manas and Stephen Gill\'s The Flame/Anuradha Sharma. 10. Stephen Gill\'s flaming pursuit/Shubha MUkherjee. 11. The destructive power of war and the humanistic vision in Stephen Gill\'s The Flame/S. Kumaran. 12. Stephen Gill the bard of peace/Aju Mukhopadhyay. 13. Vision and commitment in the poetry of Stephen Gill/Shujaat Hussain. 14. The Flame: a poetics of peace in the era of terrorism/Joji John Panicker and Ancy Elezabath John. Bibliography. Index.

"Dr. Stephen Gill, the bard of world peace and anti-terrorism is an Indian English poet, a Canadian poet and a world poet at the same time. Born in Pakistan and brought up in India, Stephen Gill is now settled in Canada from where he travels widely to the east and Europe disseminating the gospel of peace. As the Dove in his poems, he is flying to the turbulent areas where the \'maniac messiahs\' dance in ecstasy over the corpses of innocent masses. Rays of hope emit through his poems and lectures and they soothe the aching minds like a balm. Dr. K.V. Dominic, an emerging Indian English poet, short story writer, critic and editor, is trying through this edited anthology to transmit Gill\'s mission and vision to the reading community. This book carries fourteen critical articles on Stephen Gill\'s poetry and an interview with the poet. Dr. Dominic has also incorporated a long bibliography--Gill\'s own publications, books on his writings as well as critical articles on his poetry which appeared in innumerable journals and books." (jacket)