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All India Poetry Prize
All India Poetry Prize was instituted by Poetry Society of India in 1988. The prizes are awarded to the best single work of poetry submitted by an Indian poet. The number of prizes varies from year to year. Selection Selection of prize winners is through open competitions, variously known as ''All India Poetry Competition'' or ''National Poetry Competition''. The process is similar to National Poetry Competition of U.K. However, only Indian citizens are eligible to participate without any age limit. Entry for the competition can be original poems written in English, or poems translated into English from any of the recognised Indian languages. A panel of judges consisting of eminent poets from India and abroad evaluate the poems without knowing the identity of the participating poets. The Jury The jury selecting the prize winners consist of eminent poets from India and abroad. Past jury members include Peter Forbes, Lawrence Sail, Ruth Padel, Sitakant Mahapatra, J. P. Das, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Poetry Society (India)
The Poetry Society (India) was formed in July 1984 at New Delhi as a voluntary association to promote Indian poetry and to look after the interests of Indian Poets. The founding members included the Indian poets Keshav Malik, J P Das, H K Kaul and Lakshmi Kannan. The Society conducts seminars, creative writing workshops, reading and publication of poetry journal and anthologies. It also conducts All India Poetry Competitions, including competitions among school children. The Journal of the Poetry Society The Poetry Society also publishes a half yearly ''Poetry Journal''. It was started in 1990 and it publishes the best of Indian poetry written in English, including those translated from Indian languages. The journal also publishes book reviews and literary criticism. The society has been conducting all Indian poetry competition among school children. All India Poetry Competition SInce 1988, The Poetry Society (India) has been conducting All India Poetry Competitions in collabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punarnava (poem)
"Punarnava" (lit. ''The Ever Renewing'') is a popular award-winning poem by the noted Indian English poet and literary critic Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya. The poem won First Prize in the Third All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 1991. The poem has been widely cited and anthologised in reputed journals and scholarly volumes on contemporary Indian poetry. Structure of the poem The poem has a unique and original structure, which marks a departure from contemporary Indian poetry. Its five lines can be regarded as five stanzas or five paragraphs. The diction is that of prose, but the strong evocative imagery belongs to poetry of the highest quality. The five stanzas evoke images pertaining to five different sense organs - sight, smell, touch, hearing and smell. The poem can be thought of a bouquet of meditations on different paths to Truth. Excerpts from the poem :"Punonnoba"-Punarnava? :In some rainy month, did you decide :to climb up our lichene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digging
Digging, also referred to as excavation, is the process of using some implement such as claws, hands, manual tools or heavy equipment, to remove material from a solid surface, usually soil, sand or rock on the surface of Earth. Digging is actually the combination of two processes, the first being the breaking or cutting of the surface, and the second being the removal and relocation of the material found there.Carl Dreher,The Right Way to Dig, ''Popular Science'' (March 1957), p. 179. In a simple digging situation, this may be accomplished in a single motion, with the digging implement being used to break the surface and immediately fling the material away from the hole or other structure being dug. Many kinds of animals engage in digging, either as part of burrowing behavior or to search for food or water under the surface of the ground.Zen Faulkes,Morphological Adaptations for Digging and Burrowing (2013), p. 276-295. Historically, humans have engaged in digging for both of thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Lady (poem)
"Portrait of a Lady" is a poem by the Indian English poet and art critic Ranjit Hoskote. The poem won First Prize in the Seventh All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 1995. The poem brought the second major literary award for Hoskote, who also won the Sanskriti Award for Literature in 1996 and the Sahitya Akademi ''Golden Jubilee'' Award for lifetime achievement in 2005. Excerpts from the poem :Objects are lesson: from bowls, hairpins, brooches, :you learn of forgotten lives. The stories say :my grandmother was a fever tree: :two birds sat on her branches, one pecking :at a grape, the other singing an aria. ::: ***** :What history's bookkeepers do not show :is the tremor down the spine she felt, :the tendril of blood that coiled in her nose :when the whistle of a train announced :her husband's return from a tour of duty. ::: ***** :In the stories, she's an actor, a pilgrim: :shadow-boxing with a thunderstorm, :she slips through brick walls, :tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote (born 1969) is an Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator. He has been honoured by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award and the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation. In 2022, Hoskote received the 7th JLF-Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry. Early life and education Ranjit Hoskote was born in Mumbai and educated at the Bombay Scottish School, Elphinstone College, where he studied for a BA in Politics, and later at University of Bombay, from where he obtained an MA degree in English Literature and Aesthetics. Career As poet Hoskote began to publish his work during the early 1990s. He is the author of several collections of poetry including ''Zones of Assault'', ''The Cartographer's Apprentice'', ''Central Time'', ''Jonahwhale'', ''The Sleepwalker's Archive'' and ''Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985–2005''. Hoskote has been seen as extending the Angloph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coffin Maker
"The Coffin Maker" is a poem by the Indian English poet Gopi Krishnan Kottoor. The poem won Second Prize in the Sixth All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 1995. This was the first major literary award for Kottoor, who went on to win four more major poetry awards at All India Poetry Competition. Comments and criticism The poem has received positive reviews since its first publication in 1995 in the book ''Emerging Voices'' and has since been widely anthologised. The poem has been frequently quoted in scholarly analysis of contemporary Indian English poetry. The poem has become very popular in Indian English literature and has been widely anthologised. See also *The Poetry Society (India) The Poetry Society (India) was formed in July 1984 at New Delhi as a voluntary association to promote Indian poetry and to look after the interests of Indian Poets. The founding members included the Indian poets Keshav Malik, J P Das, H K Kaul ... Notes E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopi Kottoor
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Birds Of North Europe
"Birds of North Europe" is a poem by Tabish Khair, the internationally acclaimed Indian English author and journalist. The poem won First Prize in the Sixth All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 1995. The poem brought the first major literary award for Tabish Khair, who is better known as a novelist of repute. Excerpts from the poem :Twenty-four years in different European cities and he had not lost :His surprise at how birds stopped at the threshold :Of their houses. Never :Flying into rooms, to be decapitated by fan-blades or carefully :Herded through open windows to another life, never :Building on this lampshade ::: ***** :Did not intrude into private spheres. demanding to be overlooked :Or worshipped. They did not consider houses simply :Exotic trees or hollowed :Hills. Not being particularly learned, he did not know the thread :Of fear that knots the wild to the willed, not :Being well-read, he :Did not remember the history behind their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tabish Khair
Tabish Khair is an Indian English author and associate professor in the Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His books include ''Babu Fictions'' (2001), ''The Bus Stopped'' (2004), which was shortlisted for the Encore Award (UK) and ''The Thing About Thugs'' (2010), which has been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Man Asian Literary Prize. His poem '' Birds of North Europe'' won first prize in the sixth Poetry Society All India Poetry Competition held in 1995. In 2022, he published a new Sci Fi novel, '' he Body by the Shore'. Biography Born and educated mostly in Gaya, India, Khair has received honours and awards including first prize in the sixth Poetry Society (India) Competition held in 1995, an honorary fellowship for creative writing from the Baptist University of Hong Kong, fellowships at New Delhi's universities and a by-fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK. He is curre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Farmer's Ghost
"A Farmer's Ghost" is a popular English poem by the Indian poet and writer Anju Makhija. The poem won First Prize in the Fifth All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 1994. The poem has been widely cited and anthologised in reputed journals and scholarly volumes on contemporary Indian poetry. Comments and criticism The poem has received positive reviews since its first publication in 1995 in the anthology on Indian Poetry ''Emerging Voices''. The poem has been frequently quoted in scholarly analysis of contemporary Indian English poetry. The poem is regarded by critics as a jewel in contemporary Indian poetry. See also *The Poetry Society (India) The Poetry Society (India) was formed in July 1984 at New Delhi as a voluntary association to promote Indian poetry and to look after the interests of Indian Poets. The founding members included the Indian poets Keshav Malik, J P Das, H K Kaul ... Notes External links Fifth National Poetry Competiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anju Makhija
Anju Makhija is an Indian poet, playwright, translator and columnist. She has won several national and international awards for her poetry in English. Biography Anju Makhija was born in Pune and spent several years in Canada. She has a master's degree in media from Concordia University, Montreal. She has worked in the fields of education, training and television. She writes poetry, plays and has worked on audio-visual scripts. Her multimedia production All Together, won her a special award at the National Education Film Festival, California. She has participated and won prizes in poetry and playwriting competitions organized by The British Council, The Poetry Society of India and the BBC. Makhija is the author of ''View from the Web''. She also the editor of an Anthology of Indian Women Poets 1990-2007 published by the Sahitya Akademi. Her poems appeared in the poetry anthology, ''Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry'', ''The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Writer's Prayer
"A Writer's Prayer" is an English poem by the Indian poet and renowned spiritual healer Tarun Cherian. Cherian has had written many a poems beforehand with this one being his best work. ''A Writers Prayer'' won Second Prize in the Fifth All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 1993. The poem was his first major award-winning work. This poem was written by him in tribute to his wife Celia Cherian. Tarun eventually went on to make a mark in mysticism, spirituality and visual art. Excerpts from the Poem Let my words have an unvarnished feel to them. Truth writ in the grain. Sentences that feel like bark and offer comfort like a bench after a long walk into the hills with a woman. ******* Let my words have the clearness of a stream - the seeing pebbles look. The kind through which you reach and pick a water smooth pebble. Or better still cupped in both hands, its icy coolness splashed on a sweaty face and arms dewed with a laughing run up a summery sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
