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This is part of Saudha International Literature Festival that preaches the art of imagination through talks, reading, performances.Curated by poet T M Ahmed Kaysher, this session at the Arts One Studio 1:28 of Queen Mary University of London (Mile End Road Campus), focuses on to re-read /re-interpret the works of a major English poet John Milton (1608-1674) and Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824 - 1873 - as part of the celebration of his 200 birth anniversary) through talks / readings / performances.
Poet Fiona Sampson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Sampson....), poet Peter Robinson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Robinson_(poet)), poet John Farndon (https://johnfarndon.com/) poet Georgia Hilton, poet April Elizabeth Pawar will bring some unique interpretation of Milton and fictionist Shree Ganguly will talk on the relevance of Madhusudan as part of the celebration of 200 birth anniversary of a great Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt.
The session also features brief book-launches of a few important poetry books.
Poet and fictionist Shree Ganguly will share a few translations from the newly published book by T M Ahmed kaysher and a British Polish violinist Basia Bartz will render musical interpretation of poetry as well as a celebrated moden and actor from Bangladesh Sadia Islam Mou will render visual interpretation of poetry.
The festival has been supported by Mayor's Small Grant Programme of Tower Hamlets Council.
Saudha ( www.saudha.org ) is bringing new literature from different languages and different cultural heritages through this unique festival happening all around the UK. Saudha is critically acclaimed for its series of experimental productions merging poetry, music and painting seamlessly so that each can complement each other.Saudha attracted a diverse source of audiences from all different heritages through its series of presentations of mingling and bridging different arts from different corners of the world as the way of interpreting each other. Saudha's production Songs of Sringar and Seduction & Frida Kahlo Through Indian classical music at the Royal Albert Hall has been highly praised by prominent ethno-musicologists, music and literature connoisseurs of the city and beyond. Saudha's lyrics of Love at the SouthBank Centre and at Edinburgh Fringe and Chayanaut through Sebastian Bach at the House of Commons, Taste of Twilight at ICCR, Kolkata and the Welsh Parliament were critically acclaimed by major media and musicologists. During Covid, Saudha took the first ever and historic initiative to connect leading musicians of the globe, writers, poets, painters and filmmakers from all across the world through social media platforms and the sessions were hugely appreciated by the audiences from all around the globe.
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Queen Mary University of London, New Chemistry Building, Mile End Road, London, E1 4, United Kingdom,London, United Kingdom
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