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The Purple Poets
poetry workshop leader
Kim Morrissey
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THE PURPLE POETS
REMEMBERING TAGORE
an on-going project
start date: 2009
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.......2011 will the 150th anniversary
of poet Rabrindra Nath Tagore's birth.
July 31st 2011 The Purple Poets' Bithi Das will present her poem
Remembering Tagore to the Tagore Society Library at 3
p.m.
Alexandra Park Library
Alexandra Park Road
Wood Green, London
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Tagore was born on
Tuesday, 7th May 1861 at 6, Dwarakanath Thakur Lane, Calcutta. He was the
ninth son of Debenadranath and Sarada Devi. He died Thursday, 7th August,
1941 in his ancestral home in Calcutta, the Jorasanko house, the house where
he was born.
TAGORE: A CAMDEN HERO
Tagore lived in Bloomsbury 1878-80 and attended University Collge London,
studying under Professor Henry Morley. To celebrate,
the Purple Poets will be creating poems and songs in
honour of Tagore and new translations of Tagore's
works.
Bithi Das and fellow Purple Poet
Serajul Islam Molla also take time to read
for the blind, in Bengali and English, and Bithi's poem 'Remembering Tagore'
will shortly be translated into braille, as part of the Purple Poets'
REMEMBERING TAGORE 2011 project.
Kim held a translation workshop in 2009, following her return from the December
2008 New Delhi International Literature Festival (examining Tagore's original
text of a poem often entitled 'I Cannot Remember My Mother' which Joe Winter,
in his book of various Tagore translations, The Golden Boat (Anvil
Press) entitled 'Remembering Ma').
THE
PROJECT'S PROGRESS
first stage:
January 2009.
Rough translation (first stage, first draft)
'Remembering Mother'
second stage:
08.10.2009:
The first poems celebrating Tagore
Remembering Tagore by Bithi Das and
The Bridge-Maker: for William Radice by Islam Molla
were read as part of the
CAMDEN HEROES
2009 National Poetry Day Celebrations
for the Mayor of Camden, Camden Town Hall.
25.09.2010:
Bithi Das read her poem Remembering Tagore
at the TAGORE FEST 2010
held at THE SCOOP (next to London City Hall)
September 25th 2010
presented by The Tagore Centre
UK
www.tagorecentre.org.uk
(the complete programme for this event
will be listed on the Tagore Centre UK
site)
Tagore Centre UK's Silver Jubilee Celebration at SCOOP
Saturday 25 September 2010, 11am - 5pm
The Scoop, 2A More London Riverside, London SE1 2DA
(nearest tube: London Bridge)
The Tagore Centre’s 25th anniversary is an opportunity to reintroduce
Tagore’s work to the British population. This one-day open-air free
event will be a musical extravaganza at The Scoop at More London. This event
is the first of its kind in London, featuring Tagore’s music, drama,
poetry and dancing. The event is being produced in partnership with the Asian
Music Circuit who is well known in organising Asian music events all over
the UK.
The event will showcase rhythmic music and dance as is traditionally performed
at Tagore’s university in Santiniketan, India. Artistes include Baul/Fakir
group from rural Bengal, authentic folk musicians, and Hans Vermeersch, the
well known Belgium fiddle player who specialises in interpreting and playing
Tagore’s music. London school children, members of the Tagore Centre
and various community groups will be coming together in a unique celebration
of togetherness and unity. This event is free.
HELP RAISE MONEY FOR THE BUST OF TAGORE!
(GORDON SQUARE, BLOOMSBURY)
For further information please see
www.tagorecentre.org.uk.
Tagore Society
Alexandra Park Library
Alexandra Park Road
Wood Green
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third
stage:
workshop 03.06.2010
Islam Molla translated the Tagore children's song
The Creator Will Not Be There But the Creation Will Be Forever.
This translation was first read at the Camden Green Fair 2010
(introduced by Islam singing the original Tagore
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POEMS:
POEM FOR
RABINDRA NATH TAGORE
REMEMBERING TAGORE
(by Purple Poet Bithi Das)
POEM FOR
WILLIAM RADICE
The Bridge-Maker
(by Purple Poet Islam Molla)
TRANSLATION:
The Creator Will Not Be There
But the Creation Will Be Forever
(by Purple Poet Islam Molla)
ISLAM MOLLA
THE CREATOR WILL NOT BE THERE
BUT THE CREATION WILL BE FOREVER!
(a translation for children of a song by Tagore)
(translated for the 2010 Camden Green Fair
reading)
first draft 03.06.2010
When the sign of any footprint
Won't be on the bank of the River
Don't try to find me there.
You look upon the Sky at the Stars
I will be there in between them.
If you look at the Storm
In your eyes it destroys everything.
I will be there in the form of destruction.
You will not see me,
But I will be there
As the Stars
Twinking from above the sky
And watching upon you.
POEM FOR
RABINDRA NATH TAGORE:
Remembering Tagore
by Bithi Das
I remember
in my childhood
his poems I read in school
in Calcutta, not realising
how important they were in life.
I was a little girl.
I didn't understand the value
of his Nobel Prize
but I remember
his death.
There was no television those days,
I heard the commentary on the radio.
Heard the procession,
and I cried and cried,
cried very hard.
I still cry
for this great man, my hero.
POEM FOR
WILLIAM RADICE:
The
Bridge-maker
(for William Radice)
by Islam Molla
You are the bridge
bringing East and West together
translating Tagore for the World.
You are the Bengali bridge-maker,
Transporting The Golden Boat,
The Postman, Half an Acre of Land.
Sonar Tari. Gitanjali. Dui Bigha Jami.
You are Simplicity, Gentleness, Generosity.
In your quiet, English way
You are a Lion of a Man.
And you are my inspiration. When I say
I am old, I haven't done things
I wanted to do. You say:
You only live once
If you want to do something
You will do it.
Start today
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
History and the postcolonial: Rabindranath Tagore's reception in London,
1912-1913
Collins, M. (2007) History and the postcolonial: Rabindranath Tagore's reception
in London, 1912-1913. The International Journal of the Humanities, 4 (9).
pp. 71-84. ISSN 14479559
Abstract
This article examines the immediate historical context within which an image
of Tagore – one that persists today – was constructed. It looks
at the expectations and prejudices of Tagore’s contacts in London such
as William Rothenstein, W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound; some of the ideas about
Tagore articulated in the British press; and the Nobel Prize controversy.
In so doing it seeks to clear away some of the historical misunderstandings
surrounding Tagore’s visit to London in 1912 and 1913 and the awarding
of the Nobel Prize. It argues that this is a starting point for a better
appreciation of Tagore as an historical actor, and hence to understanding
both his real motivations for visiting to London in 1912 and the grander,
more theoretically interesting, nature of Tagore’s anti-colonial project.
Publisher version: http://ijh.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.932
Keywords: History, intellectual history, colonialism, Britain, India, culture,
identity, power, postcolonialism
SOURCE: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/12334/
RECOMMENDED:
SUDEEP SEN'S TRANSLATIONS OF TAGORE'S NONSENSE POEMS
(published in ARIA)
PURPLE POETS CAMDEN HEROES ARCHIVE
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Do you have a Hero who lives
or lived in the borough of Camden?
Send us a Poem on a Postcard!
Don't forget to keep a copy of your poem for yourself.
list of local heroes (on-going)
We're collecting Borough of Camden Heroes on Postcards.
If you would like to send us your poem on a postcard,
for our archive, please do.
Postcards only, please (no e-mails).
click here for National Poetry Day programme
and list of some of the participating poets
Thank you again, to the TADS, and all the Purple Poets,
past and present, to our guest poets
Elain Feinstein and Alan Brownjohn, special guest Katja Schmidt,
heroes: Bernard Miller, William Radice, Richard Price,
artists Colin Shelbourn, Jo WOnder, and Heather Spears
(for her wonderful drawings of Camden writers) Third Age Project Director
Tony Bloor for his support, The Mayor of Camden (Councillor Ansari), The Mayor's
office and staff,
Golden Gazette editor Rosemary Howes
and everyone who came to read, and to listen,
and to take tea with the Mayor of Camden
in our beautiful Town Hall.
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Purple
Poets
and Friends
and Peace |
THE QUAKER CENTRE
LIBRARY
Friends Meeting House,
173 Euston Road
Bloomsbury
London NW1 2BJ
Tel: 020 7663 1030
quakercentre@quaker.org.uk
Hiroshima Day-readings from Found Poetry Quaker Library Project
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FIRST READING:
Thursday 22 April 2.30pm
Poetry reading inspired
by Quaker Testimonies to Peace
Quaker Centre, Friends
House, 173 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ
To celebrate the first Quaker Peace Testimony
in 1660/1, join us in the Quaker Centre as the Purple
Poets and Friends (including work by Miram Halahmy,
Peter Daniels, Leslie Wilson, Sue
Blundell, Fiona Green,
members of The Fitzrovia Women Writers, Katja Schmidt,
Bernard Miller, Jeoffrey Bould, Heather Spears,
Bithi Das, Islam Molla,
Patsy Futatsugi, Nahar Islam,
Shelagh Beale, Kim
Morrissey, Barry Cole - poetry workshop leader
of the Fitzrovia Poetry Workshop) and
members of TADs -the Third Age Project's Drama Group,
and a special reading by Deanna Johnson of a found
poem cycle based on the Boer War Letters of Emiy Hobhouse.
Most of the poets will be reading their own found
poems taken from the Peace collections in Friends House Library. This
is an on-going project, and this is the first of several workshops and
readings.
Our special guest artist Jo WOnder will present
her own 'found poetry' Peace collage to the Quaker Centre Library inspired
by Quaker texts selected by Kim Morrissey. |
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A free event, light
refreshments provided. Please register
at:www.quaker.org.uk/purplepoets
Event is from 2.30
to 4.00 pm. Wheelchair accessible.
For all enquiries
please contact the Quaker Centre
quakercentre@quaker.org.uk
/ 020 7663 1030/41
OTHER PURPLE POETS' PROJECTS:
A RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION CONSTITUTION (THE MORRISSEY MILLER MODEL)
ACCESSING THE ARTS
A list of suitable venues and unsuitable venues
for performing (DDA compliant or reasonable adjustments noted)
and for holding meetings (this is an on-going project)
PROJECT:
ARTS FOR ALL | ACCESS FOR ALL
-- working with local community galleries, libraries and museums
Re-Framing Disability Exhibition
Poetic Responses by the Purple Poets
Royal College of Physicians Project
FIFTH FIELD TRIP (18.03.2010)
National Portrait Gallery, Saint Martins Lane
(The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, invited viewing and NPG workshop)
How to Read a Painting
workshop leaders Fran Wilde and Kim Morrissey
special guest artist and resource person Jo
WOnder
additional artist material by Heather
Spears
FOURTH FIELD TRIP (18.01.2010)
Quakers Centre Library
Euston Road
(Testimonies of Peace research for April 22nd, 2010 reading)
THIRD FIELD TRIP (24.05.2009)
British Museum, Great Russell Street
(Indian Summer, Garden and Cosmos, invited viewing)
SECOND FIELD TRIP (02.04.2009)
Wellcome Trust Library, Euston Road (Acts of Mercy paintings)
FIRST FIELD TRIP AND ON-GOING
PROJECT (05.10.2006)
1930's Stained Glass Windows by Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope, (M.E.A.
Rope)
The Crypt, Munster Square
first visit by photographer Tatiana Schenck (09.05.2009)
these windows were commissioned for St. Augustine's (Hackney)
background essay and footnotes: Art in the Crypt
SAINT LEONARD
SAINT GEORGE
The PURPLE POETS:
Babushka, Bithi Das, Eppie Caredda, Ferdous Rahman,
Serajul Islam Molla, Jean Watt, Patsy
Futatsugi
CONTACT ADDRESSES
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about any of our projects
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mailing address: flat 18 Chenies Street Chambers
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www.purplepoets.com
The Purple Poets host
Camden's National Poetry Day Celebration
every first Friday in October
poetry workshop leader
Kim Morrissey
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Tel: 01453 750952
info@timebanks.co.uk
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