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World Poetry Day | March 21

World Poetry Day was declared by UNESCO “with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard”

March 21, 2024 04:47 pm | Updated 04:47 pm IST

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Poetry as dissent, poetry for awareness, to remember and bear witness — read these interviews and reviews that firmly establish the role of poetry as documenter of the times.

The poet as citizen | Interview with Meena Kandasamy on her new poetry collection, ‘Tomorrow Someone will Arrest You’

A struggle against amnesia | Review of ‘Three Women In A Single-Room House’ by K. Srilata

Angst of the wanderer | Review of ‘Restless Lives’ by Harish Bhat

Story of Sri Lanka, in verse | Review of poetry anthology ‘Out of Sri Lanka’

English has homed comfortably as one of the many ‘bhashas’ in India: interview with the editors of ‘Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2023’

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English has homed comfortably as one of the many ‘bhashas’ in India: interview with the editors of ‘Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2023’
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