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Poetry Workshop
 
Learn the nuances of Poetry
 
British Library, Bengaluru, in association with Toto Funds the Arts (TFA), is pleased to announce a two-day poetry workshop to be conducted by Sampurna Chattarji. In this workshop, we will attempt to understand the form, craft, tone, voice, detail, specificity, point of view and style, through the eyes of that disobedient and difficult animal – the rewrite. In the process, we will focus on tradition and continuity, anxiety and influence, theme and variation, homage and irreverence. Also, we will look at reading and rereading, judging and misjudging, and subsequently addressing the factors that appreciate the value of a poem.

About the facilitator
SAMPURNA CHATTARJI is a poet, novelist and translator with eight books to her credit. Her debut poetry collection, Sight May Strike You Blind, published by the Sahitya Akademi in 2007 was reprinted in 2008. Sampurna’s poetry has appeared in Indian and international journals such as The Little Magazine, New Quest, Chandrabhaga, Indian Literature (India); Stand Magazine, Wasafiri (UK); Drunken Boat, The Literary Review (USA); Wespennest (Germany), Interlitq (Argentina), Carapace (South Africa) and has been anthologized in 60 Indian Poets (Penguin); Both Sides of The Sky (NBT); We Speak in Changing Languages (Sahitya Akademi); Interior Decoration: poems by 54 women from 10 languages (Women Unlimited); Imagining Ourselves (IMOW, San Francisco); Fulcrum (Fulcrum Poetry Press, US) and The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe, UK).

Schedule
Date: 26-27 March, 10.00 a.m. – 5.30 p.m.
Venue:British Library, Prestige Takt, 23 Kasturba Road Cross (Opp: Visvesvaraiah Industrial & Technological Museum), Bengaluru

Registration Guidelines

Catering to the age group of 18 – 35 yrs, this workshop will host a maximum 12 participants. We will necessarily screen applicants. So please email ONE ‘finished’ poem to [email protected] by March 10, 2011 to help Sampurna choose the participants. Once you are selected, you can send in your cheque for Rs 1800 made out to Toto Funds the Arts, at H-301, Adarsh Gardens, 47th Cross, 8th Block, Jayanagar, Bengaluru, 560082. Those selected must bring with them, to the workshop, ONE ‘finished’ poem (either the one they had sent earlier or a new one) and ONE poem in progress.


 
Fees Structure
Rs 1800, inclusive of lunch, tea/coffee and refreshments. British Council Library members will pay only Rs 1,500.
 
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