Editorial
Poetry is one of the most fundamental expressions of human understanding. From the newborn baby’s `ONKAR` (a baby’s first sound) to a person’s last sigh ‘Ahhh…!’ there is poetry everywhere. We hear poetry when we listen to the sounds of autumn leaves falling, the caws of birds announcing danger, the exchange of gossip in street corners, car horns in traffic jams, and the splashing footsteps as people run for cover during a rainstorm. And literature, which is divided into many names and surnames, is rooted in the essence of poetry – storytelling, sounds, rhythms, word plays, and evocative images. Our passion for poetry is primitive and genuine.
Twenty-nine years ago, on December 1990, the first release of Shuddhashar was published through a series of poems. It was a blusterous and unforgettable time. A group of young literature activists expressed their passion, protests, and dreams in poetry. Everything seemed urgent, emotional, and possible, and poetry was the powerful weapon wielded to challenge the status quo and create a better world. In those poems, there was a simultaneous feeling about art for the sake of art, and art for the sake of life itself.
Since that beginning 29 years ago, Shuddhashar has had to deal with many unfavorable situations. Particularly after October 31, 2015, Shuddhahar’s program and activities have had to be massively changed, and a new ring has had to be decorated by new gems. However, these situations have expanded our view of the sky and made our vision more open and more generous, more expansive and inclusive. Every day we miss the gems of friendship, companionship, political and intellectual gossip (adda, Bengali style) which we lost. Losing everything has meant that Shuddhashar has learned to focus on equality, justice, and compassion as goals for humanity.
On December 2019, another issue completely devoted to poetry is being released by Shuddhashar. We wanted to publish an issue of political poems, but it was not possible due to various limitations. However, this issue can certainly be referred to as an issue of international poems. We have been able to give a platform for poets from nine countries and who wrote their poems in seven different languages. Among them, we have several Norwegian and British poets, and a US poet of spoken word. Six poets are currently living in exile after being persecuted in their country of origin because of their writing. We have also been able to publish the poetry of the first exiled poet from Bangladesh, when the journey of national purification and persecution began there. Daud Haider was expelled from Bangladesh by the government in 1974, only three years after the founding of Bangladesh. In this issue, we have published in three languages: Bengali, Norwegian, and English. In addition to poems originally written in these three languages, we have published English translations from Persian, Tigrinya, and Arabic, and a Norwegian translation from Azerbaijani language. It would have been best if all the poems had been translated into all three languages. However, we are starting to think about this, and we hope that by the next time we publish a special poetry issue, we will be able to provide translations into more than one language. By offering language translations, we hope to reach the readers beyond the boundaries of the language. We firmly believe that humans and their thinking and creativity are above the boundaries of religion, nationality, class, and group. As art, poetry does not endorse boundaries. Ideally it should also transcend human-made boundaries of language.
Our love, thanks, and solidarity to all the writers, readers, well-wishers, and supporter of Shuddhashar. Whether we meet to gossip on street corners or meet through visions of a humane world inspired by words on a page, we are with you always.
কবিতা ভাবনা কবিতা বিষয়ে ভাবনা কী? কবিতায় দর্শন কতটা রচিত,কবিতা লেখার উৎস এবং কবিতা কতটা জরুরী আজকের কর্পোরেট যুগে। কবিতা নিয়ে কখনও কিছু ভেবেছি কি আদৌ? স্মরণ হচ্ছে না। পারিপার্শ্বিকের চলমান ঘটনায় বিচলিত হয়েছি,হোক তা সমাজ-রাজনীতির, দেশি-বিদেশি,লিখেছি চট জলদি।কবিতার নামে,গদ্যের আদলে। কবিতা হয়নি নিশ্চয়। ছন্দ-টন্দ নিয়ে লেখাপড়া নেই তেমন, মাথাও ঘামাইনে। কান-এ যদি বেসুরো শোনায়, …
Hvorfor poesi Kommunikasjon er samtale på samme brett (nivå). Dialog er samtale mellom ulike nivåer. Poesi har mye av dialogen i seg, svært ulike folk kan dele et dikt, diktet forbinder. Poesi kan leses i store rom med blandet publikum. Likevel tror en bl. a. her i landet at diktet trenger intimsfæren for å leses. …
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আমার কবিতা আমার বেশ কিছুদিনের চেনা এক কবি এর মধ্যে বেশ কিছু কবিতা পড়ে ফেলেছেন আমার। বললেন, আমার কবিতা খুব আটপৌরে। আটপৌরে বলতে ঠিক কী বোঝাতে চেয়েছেন জানি না। কী? খুব পাশের বাড়ি পাশের বাড়ি, চিনি চিনি ধরনের? খুব ঘরের কিছু, মাছ ভাত, হলুদ নুনএর মতো? পানের বাটা, চালকুমড়ো, দিদিমা দিদিমা, মা মা? নাকি মেঝের আল্পনা, মুড়ি ভাজা, দুপুরবেলার উল্টোরথ, দিদিদের শ্বশুরবাড়ি চলে যাওয়া? …
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Editor’s note: In her poetry, Marlanda Dekine – Sapient Soul uses spoken word, a form of poetry based in performance and oral tradition and frequently used to comment on social justice and systems of inequality. Spoken word is meant to be listened to and experienced through sound, with meter and aural aesthetics as important components. …
কবিতা বিষয়ে চিন্তা, অনুধাবন, দর্শন অনুরাগ প্রতিরাতে ঘুম বন্ধক দিয়ে যে বিস্ময় উৎপন্ন করি তারে কেউ বলেন কবিতা, কেউ বলেন আমার জীবন। আমি বলি অহি। সারা রাত হয়রান হয়ে দৌড়ের উপর থেকে জ্ঞান ফিরলে কখনো বালিশের নিচে পাই একটি শব্দ, কখনোবা একটি চরণ। কিন্তু ওই আমার সোনার ময়না, ওই আমার কইতর- আমার আরাধনার ফল।তারই জন্য …
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কবিতা বিষয়ক নোট ইতিউতি ভাবনার উপজাত অনুভূতিরাজি যখন চিত্তমণ্ডলে লাগাতার ভাঙচুর চালাতে থাকে, তখন মনোপুলিশ লাগিয়ে গুম করে না দিয়ে সেসব অনুভূতিকে কথায়, রঙে বা সুরে মুক্তি দিলে নিদারুণ অস্বস্তি থেকে নিস্তার পাওয়া যায়। কার্যত আমি রঙান্ধ ও অসুর, তাই কথার আশ্রয়েই তার যথাসাধ্য প্রকাশ ঘটাই। কখনো কখনো দেখি কিয়দংশ প্রকাশে অবলীলায় ভর করে আছে …
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