C. P. Surendran Biography
C. P. Surendran (born 1956) is a poet, novelist and journalist from India.
Biography
Born to malayalam writer and rationalist Pavanan and Parvathy, C. P. Surendran received his M.A. in English Literature from Delhi University, Delhi and taught for short while at Calicut University before working as journalist in Mumbai for many English newspaper including the Times of India , Times Sunday Review , Bombay Times besides others. He was resident editor of the Times of India in Pune for three years. He is now senior editor with the Times of India in Delhi.
A selection of his poems was included in Gemini II in 1994 . He published an independent collection of poems Posthumous Poems in 2000.
His first novel An Iron Harvest, about the Naxalite uprising, was published by Indiaink. He has also published three collections of poetry. He currently lives in delhi.
It’s three in the morning.
The house rings with alarms,
There’s someone leaning
On the doorbell. It’s her
...
I had just fought this war and come back,
Minding my own business and drinking beer.
Then I met this girl at Joe’s
Who wrote poems on the back
...
First light on the kitchen table
Breakfast for one. Beer and wine.
Feline eyes kiss fallen tart.
...
A hunt for the royal pun
Took him around the room
Which was not unlike a notebook
Bursting with rough work.
...
At the Family Court
The lift wouldn’t work.
So they walked up
Four flights
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