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1992 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events *The Forward Prizes for Poetry in the U.K. are initiated and ''The Forward Book of Poetry'', an associated annual anthology of best British poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust. By 2003, the publication is selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year. Each year, 50 to 80 poems are selected. *The first wall poems in Leiden are installed. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australian literature, Australia * Chris Mansell, ''Shining Like a Jinx'' * Les Murray (poet), Les Murray, ''Translations from the Natural World'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, migrated to Britain after its End of Roman rule in Britain, Roman occupiers left. English is the list of languages by total number of speakers, most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the list of languages by number of native speakers, third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish language, Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in list of countries and territories where English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Fallon (poet)
Peter Fallon (born 1951) is an Irish poet, editor and publisher. As of 2023, he has edited and published 500 books of poetry and drama, and ten volumes of his own work have been released since 1971. He was elected a member of Aosdána, Ireland's arts academy, by his peers, and has been a professor at multiple universities, as well as a writer-in-residence and the presenter on multiple literary tours. Fallon is the subject of a 2014 festschrift, which included 17 poems in his honour, including one by Seamus Heaney. Early life and family Born in West Germany to Irish parents in 1951, while his father was serving with the British Army, Peter Fallon was brought to Ireland in 1957, at the age of 6, and largely grew up on a farm at Lennoxbrook, near Kells, County Meath. He has one brother, and had one sister. At the age of 9 he was sent to St Gerard's School in Bray, for three years, and then for a period, he attended the Benedictine-run Glenstal Abbey School, which is where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Dunne (poet)
Seán Dunne (1956–1995) was a poet born in Waterford, Ireland. Career Dunne edited several anthologies, beginning with ''The Poets of Munster'' (1985) and finishing with the ''Ireland Anthology'' which was completed posthumously by George O'Brien and Dunne's partner Trish Edelstein. He released 3 collections of poems. Dunne's collections of poems were all well received, and in order of release are: ''Against the Storm'' (1985), ''The Sheltered Nest'' (1992) and ''Time and the Island''. The account of his childhood ''In My Father's House,'' published in 1991, was a bestseller. Life Dunne's father was Richard Dunne. His mother died in 1960 when Dunne was four.''In My Father's House'' Anna Livia Press Ltd, 1991 Seán attended Scoil Lorcain primary school in St Johns Park and Mount Sion secondary school in Waterford city, where he wrote for the school magazine and participated in organising poetry and music evenings. He attended University College Cork University College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Clifton (poet)
Harry Clifton (born 1952) is an Irish poet. Biography Clifton was born in Dublin, where he was educated at Blackrock College and University College, Dublin. He has three younger brothers and two sisters. After graduating, Clifton began an extended period of travel outside of Ireland. Many of his experiences from this time had a major influence on his poetry because he believes the true home of the poet is 'not in a place, but in the language itself'. He has lived in places throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. He lectured at a teacher training college in Nigeria in the early 1970s. He worked as an aid administrator in Thailand for Indo-Chinese refugees in the 1980s. He lived in Italy's Abruzzi Mountains, Switzerland, England and Germany before settling in Paris for ten years. He was poet-in-residence at the Frost Place in New Hampshire, an International Fellow at the University of Iowa, and a representative for Ireland at the International Writing Program in Iowa. He has held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marathi Poetry
Marathi poetry is a poetry written in the Marathi language, including its various dialects. The poet-saints Namdev (Devanagari: नामदेव) and Dnyaneshwar (Devanagari: ज्ञानेश्वर), from Maharashtra, India, wrote the earliest significant religious poetry in Marathi. They were born in 1270 and 1275, respectively. Namdev wrote over 400 verses in the '' abhang'' (अभंग) form. Dnyaneshwar composed his poetry in the ''owi'' (ओवी) form. His compositions, Dnyaneshwari (ज्ञानेश्वरी) and Amrutanubhawa (अमृतानुभव), consist of 9,037 and about 800 ''owis'', respectively. 16th to 18th century Eknath (एकनाथ, 1533 – 1599) was the next prominent Marathi poet. Prominent poets from the 17th century include Tukaram, Mukteshwar, Ramdas, Vaman Pandit, Raghunath Pandit and Shridhar Pandit. Moropant was a prominent poet of the 18th century. His Aryabhaarata (आर्याभारत) was the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasant Abaji Dahake
Vasant Abaji Dahake (born March 30, 1942) is a Marathi poet, playwright, short story writer, artist, and critic from Amaravati district in the Maharashtra state of India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since .... In 2009, ee was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection ''Chitralipi''. He was associated with the little magazine movement in Marathi during the mid-1950s and the 1960s. Dahake was the President of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Chandrapur in 2012. He is married and has two children. Works Poetry *''Yogabhrashta'' (1972). (Translated into English as ''A Terrorist of the Spirit'' by Ranjit Hoskote and Mangesh Kulkarni.) *''Shubha-Wartaman'' (1987) *''Shunah-Shepa'' (1996) *''Chitralipi'' Fiction *''Adholoka'' (1975) *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mangesh Kulkarni
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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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality. Life and career Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in Mumbai. She is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose. She has received the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Women's Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships. Her volume of poetry, ''When God Is a Traveller'' was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2015, and won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2020. Her poetry has been published in ''Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Poets'' (Penguin India); ''Sixty Indian Poets'' (Penguin India), ''Both Sides of the Sky'' (National Book Trust, India), ''We Speak in Changing Languages'' (Sahitya Akademi), ''Fulcrum No 4: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics'' (Fulcrum Poetry Press, US), ''The Bloodaxe Book of Contempora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (born 1947) is an Indian poet, anthologist, literary critic and translator. Biography Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born in Lahore in 1947. He has published six collections of poetry in English and two of translation — a volume of Prakrit love poems, ''The Absent Traveller'', recently reissued in Penguin Classics, and '' Songs of Kabir'' ( NYRB Classics). His ''Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets'' (1992) has been very influential. He has edited several books, including ''History of Indian Literature in English'' (Columbia University Press, 2003) and ''Collected Poems in English'' by Arun Kolatkar ( Bloodaxe Books, 2010). His collection of essays ''Partial Recall: Essays on Literature and Literary History'' was published by Permanent Black in 2012. A second book of essays, ''Translating the Indian Past'' (Permanent Black), appeared in 2019. Mehrotra was nominated for the post of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Nambisan
Vijay Nambisan (1963 – August 10, 2017) was an Indian poet, writer, critic and journalist who primarily wrote in English. He won the first All India Poetry Prize in 1990. He died following health complications on the 10th of August, 2017. Literary career Both debut authors, Vijay Nambisan and Jeet Thayil, co-authored ''Gemini'' in 1992. Nambisan received the first All India Poetry Prize in 1988 for his poem "Madras Central". He wrote ''First Infinities'' in 2015, his first collection of poems since ''Gemini''. Additionally, he wrote several non-fiction books including: ''Bihar Is in the Eye of the Beholder'' in 2000, ''Language as an Ethic'' in 2003, and ''Two Measures of Bhakti'' in 2009, which include translations of works by Poonthanam Nambudiri and Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri. Personal life Vijay Nambisan graduated from IIT Madras. He married the novelist and doctor Kavery Nambisan. Bibliography Books * ''Language as an Ethic'' (Essays) New Delhi: Penguin Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
