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Poet Aminur Rahman at London poetry evening

Published : Saturday, 18 November, 2017 at 12:00 AM  Count : 783
Literature Desk
An international poetry event entitled 'Sun and Stars' was organized by poet Agnes Meadows for internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi poet Aminur Rahman teamed up with international poets. They recited their poems and responded to the open discussion session on November 3, 2017, at 7pm-10pm, at the Sun, 21 Drury Lane, London, UK.

Aminur's works have been translated into 25 languages, and he represented Bangladesh at arts and poetry festivals all over the world, receiving numerous international awards for his contribution to poetry. He read from his new collection 'Perpetual Diary'.

As an accomplished translator Aminur Rahman has translated 12 books of poetry and edited few poetry magazines and books including SAARC Anthology of poems and short stories. Moreover, he has represented Bangladesh in poetry festivals in Columbia, Malaysia, Mongolia, India, Iraq, Japan, Sri Lanka, Spain, Nicaragua etc. He was awarded Chinggish Khan Gold Medal (2006), Heaven Horse Award (2015), in Mongolia, Numera World Award for Letters (2016) in Malaysia, Contribution Award for International Poetry (2016) in Taiwan.

The other distinguished poets in the event were Claire Booker, Racheal Josephs, Agnes Meadows, Isabel White, songwriter Linda Shanson and renowned musician Baluji Shrivastav.

The organizer of the event London-based poet Agnes Meadows twice won awards for Outstanding Writing at the Austin International Poetry Festival, where she was Guest Poet for 10 consecutive years. She read from 'The Light on the Wall' (Morgan's Eye Press), a dual language collection published in English and Chinese.  

Claire Booker is a poet and associate writer in Goblin Baby Theatre Co whose poetry has appeared in Ambit, the Rialto, the Spectator among others.

Racheal Joseph is a Londoner and 'Little Brown Girl' is her first collection. She has given readings of her work in London, Antigua, and Canada.

Isabel White's poems have appeared in numerous journals, for instance, in 'Keats Festival Anthology', 'Succour', 'Wordsmyth', 'Loose Muse', 'The Sun Also Rises', 'Trespass', 'Poetry Pearl', and many more. She is the prize winner in Guernsey International Literary Festival 2014, and runner-up in 2013 BBC Radio 3 Proms Poetry Competition. Moreover, she was a poet in residence in First Stop in Darlington (2005), Brendoncare (2009), Margate (2011), and Carford (2013).
The event ended with question answer session where audience and poets participated.  

Poems from
'Perpetual Diary'
by Aminur Rahman
 

LOVE 6

Love flies away
flies, flies to touch you
After touching you, returns
            to my lips

But still it seems
some of it is given and some not. 
Love still remains
in your heart.


THE SCULPTURE

From the mist's dense cape
I carve your body's shape --
gently sculpting, all morning.

With my eyes shut, I sit
amid the fog's heavy sheets
as its frost settles
on  my cheek, ear, and nose.
The same hands,
the same lips, the same eyes --
I find them with such ease --
Your torso floats on that river;
I shall conquer its flow.
Your figure blossoms, freeing itself,
leaving behind sun's light
and fog's ephemeral body.
You're entwined with my soul--
its root, plinth, and depth.

Poems from
'The Light on the Wall'
by Agnes Meadows


White fire of summer, a hare's passing

She looked deep into the white fire of summer
as if she might discover messages written in the flames,
as if the names of her ancestors might be found there,
as if mates coming out of the shadow of winter
might reach from the cinders to carve their mating
into children that she could succour with her breathing.

As the light stroked her into wakefulness, she
would swiftly forget the call of owls at midnight,
her eyes more luminous than star-shine.
And in her dreams she could run, run and leap up
into the bright silver arms of the moon, up to where
the pale Hare of Eternity sat waiting to greet her.

Sometimes she would hear his voice as he crossed
from one world to another, whispering words of love
and forgetfulness, so that she became replete with

the madness of moons, of lunar magic, when the fey
masters of air and of water would walk naked
across heather and moorland, filling her nostrils with the

feasting of creatures, filling her ears with fey music,
the piping of storms, the drumming of snowfall,
and she could run until her heart was no longer her own,
run across heath, through the tall grasses, the whisper
of leaves falling to earth at her passing, eyes brighter
than jewels, and the white fire of summer in her mouth,

and the white fire of
summer following her from
this world to the next.


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