Gopikrishnan Kottoor

Winner, All India  Poetry prize,(Special Category) Poetry Society,
India- British Council Awards, 97.

Winner, All India poetry prize,General Category, 97 (Second
Prize)British CouncilAwards 97

Winner two Commendations, Poetry society, British Council Awards-95, 98

Poet-in- Residence Augsburg University, Germany, 2004

ICCR Scholarship, Vienna poetry readings 2004

MFA, Creative Writing, Texas USA-2001

McCormick Scholarship (Texas State University USA) for best published poet-2000
Poetry in : Give the Sea Change, Fulcrum (USA)
 : Bloodaxe book of Contemporary Indian poets, 2008 (UK)
Verse, Special issue on Indian Poetry in English, 2000 (Seattle, USA)
Both Sides of the sky : Indian poetry since Independence, NBT, 2008

Entry in wikipedia ( Gopi Kottoor)

Poetry translated and published in German ( Father, Wake Us In Passing).

Editor, Poetry Chain.(Quarterly Indian Poetry Journal)

8 Poetry books, 1 novel, two plays.

MY DAUGHTER REPORTS A SENIOR’S SUICIDE

Why dear, I ask her.

In my mind, somebody fallen in love

Has been jilted.

But things are simpler.

‘Her parents had strange diseases…..’

That baffles me.

I think of AIDS, of nothing in particular,

But drift to the silent body

Of a young girl, and her puberty,

Laid among the freshly done roses.

Don’t lose focus dear, I tell her,

And end the conversation with a telephone kiss.

Back in my mind, a young girl,

The poison she ran to,

Lips gone cold, on thresholds of beauty,

And a mind cut inside salted flesh,

Baked in sprouting alphabets of love.