The Speaking Muse

About the Author: [Dr Archana Bahadur Zutshi’s second book of poetry is forthcoming. She taught at prominent schools and many colleges of Lucknow. Poetic Candour, her first book of poetry is available on Amazon. Her early education is from St. Mary’s Convent and Sophia College, Government College Ajmer. B.Ed from CIE Delhi University, and Ph.D in poetry from Lucknow University. Her writing includes literary criticism or chapters in books on the poetry of Philip Larkin, Kamala Das and Mamta Kalia. Some of her work is also included in prominent literary journals. Read her articles on merinrws.com. Her transliteration of Hindi poems of Siryakant Tripathi, Nirala was published in Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies: An International Journal of Literature, Culture & Translation. In prominent journals of poetry her poems have featured in spillwords.com (October, 2018 & March 2019); two poems in Confluence (November 2018); Setu: A Bilingual Journal’ (April, 2019); several poems and autobiographical sketch in Guest post in Culturium (17th March 2019). Her book Poetic Candour is included in the poetic collection of Culturium - https://www.theculturium.com/archana-bahadur-zutshi-poetic-candour/. Two bilingual anthologies by UBI (2019) Colours of Life: and feature her poems. She can be reached at zutshiarchana@gmail.com]