POETRY BOOKS
DR. P. K. JOY’S POETRY BOOKS
THE FINAL GOAL (Poems)
1stEd., published by Writers’ Workshop, Kolkata, in 1987. | 2nd Ed published by Indian Writers’ Press, Writers’ Club, Chennai in 1988.
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Reviews and opinions about this collection are included in Dr. G. S. Balarama Gupta’s book P K JOY THE MAN AND THE POET
FOR A MORE BEAUTIFUL WORLD (Poems)
1st Ed., published by Poetry Time Publications, Berhampur, Orissa, India, in 1988
2nd, Ed., published by Writers’ Club, Chennai, in 1988.
Some of the poems include in this collection were endred in a competition in south korea and they won a prestigious award mentioned elsewhere in this site
FORCED SMILES (Poems)
A Writers Club book published in 1988.
Reviews and opinions about this collection are included in Dr. G. S. Balarama Gupta’s book P K JOY THE MAN AND THE POET
BEYOND MANY BENDS (Selected Poems of P K Joy)
published in 2009 by Poetry World Publications, Chennai,
Among others, the following journals have carried review articles on this book:
1. Triveni, Hyderabad, Vol. 78, No. 4, Oct-Dec 2009, pp. 57-58, by D. Ranga Rao.
2. Poetry World, Chennai, Vol. 2, No. 9, January 2010, pp. 40-41, by Ruth Wildes Schuler.
3. The Journal of Indian Writing in English, Gulbarga, Vol. 38, No. 1, January 2010, pp. 84-85, GISheriff.
4. Journal of Literatures in English, Gulbarga University,
Vol. 3, Issues 5&6, Jan-Dec 2010, pp. 265-266, G. Ruby Devaseeli.
THIRD EYE
An Anthology of Contemporary Indian English Poetry.
Ed. by Laxminarayan Mahapatra & P K Joy. 208 Pages, Published in 1991 by Poetry Time Publications, Berhampur, Orissa, India.
P K Joy had been one of the Editorial Advisors to the Annual Anthologies WORLD POETRY and POETRY WORLD of The World Poetry Society Intercontinental, for many years.
His two Malayalam books written around 1960, the first a drama titled ThakarunnaKudumbam published in 1971 by C I C C Book House, Ernakulam., and the second a transcreation of Tagore’s play Chandalika published by K. G. Nath’s Karmabhoomi, Alleppey, in 1962 are presently out of print.
UNCOLLECTED POEMS OF DR. P. K. JOY
Dr.Joy was the founder-convener of Writers’ Club, Madras, with more than 300 members from different states. It was very active in the 1980s with monthly poetry reading sessions and a monthly publication called The Indian Writer. He had been Co-Editor of Poetry Time quarterly (Berhampur) edited by Laxmi Narayan Mahapatra, and Associate Editor of ‘Kavita India’, (Muzaffarpur), edited by Dr. A. Chittranjan Sahay & A. Priyamvada Sahay. Also, he has served as Editorial Board Member / Associate Editor of the international poetry journals ‘Crosscurrent’ (New Zealand) edited by Dr. Norman Simms, ‘Bitterroot’ (New York) edited by Menke Katz, ‘Reflect’ (Norfolk) edited by W.S. Kennedy, and ‘The Plowman’ (Ontario, Canada) edited by Tony Scavetta, besides that of a few Indian journals as listed on another page. Till the demise of Prof. Nissim Ezekiel, Joy was an Executive Committee Member of The P E N India Centre. Joy was the Coordinator General of the IXth World Congress of Poets held at Bangkok in 1988 and the XIth Congress held in Cairo in 1990. He visited many countries to promote these events.