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 Shabdaguchha Poetry Award Every odd number of year, Shabdaguchha Poetry Award is given to a promising poet, who already made a significant contribution and who have contributed to Shabdaguchha at least for a couple of times. Each appoined jury could nominate three poets by the first week of December of any odd number of year. Out of the nominations submitted Shabdaguchha sorts the names and announces the winner on December 16. The detail rules/guidelines are given in the following link. The winner used to receive $200, it went up $400 on 2019 and now it is $500 and a plaque from Shabdaguchha. Rules/Guideline for Shabdaguchha Poetry Award Shabdaguchha Poetry Award Winners: 2023: Kazimierz Burnat 2021: Amir Or 2019: Dariusz Tomasz Lebioda 2017: Peter Thabit Jones 2015: Ahmed Swapan Mahmud 2013: Sambhu Rakshit 2011: Jahanara Perveen 2009: Rahman Henry 2007: Naznin Seamon 2005: Prabir Das 2003: Baitullah Quaderee 2001: Ruksana Rupa Shabdaguchha Poetry Award 2021 Shabdaguchha Poetry Award 2019 Shabdaguchha Poetry Award 2017 Shabdaguchha Poetry Award 2015 Shabdaguchha Poetry Award 2013 Shabdaguchha Poetry Award 2011 Shabdaguchha Poetry Award 2009 Shabdaguchha Poetry Award 2007 Shabdaguchha Poetry Award 2005 Shabdaguchha Poetry Award 2003 Shabdaguchha Poetry Award 2001 Poetry in Letters Shabdaguchha Lifetime Achievement Award: 2013: Stanley H. Barkan Reaction of the Winning Poets: "'Poet Amir Or is receiving this year's Shabdaguchha Poetry Award' I've just got this message with the announcement (below) from the famous Bengali poet and editor Hassanal Abdullah. I feel honored and grateful to receive this award from people who live and feel poetry, have cultivated a taste for it, and can dive into its depth. It makes me feel that my work was awarded with the ears and hearts that poetry deserves. Thank you." --Amir Or, Winner of the Shabdaguchha Poetry Award, 2021 |
A Postmodern Poetry Movement ISSN 1531-2038 
[From 25th Anniversary Issue] ----------------------------------------- As a poet and mathematician who writes and thinks in two languages and is drawn to cosmological imagery, Abdullah sees clearly the importance of poetry in conveying ideas that are critical to the new global environment. In this respect his belief in poetry shares much with the English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who considered the poet to be “the unacknowledged legislator of the world.” In the same way, Abdullah directly addresses issues of war, racism, climate change, and political corruption that must become the matter of poetry if humanity is to survive. In this spirit, he has given Shabdaguchha the purpose of spreading critical ideas through world embracing poetry. --Prof. Joan Digby Read More [From the Editorial: 15th Anniversary Issue] ----------------------------------------- Shabdaguchha loves to welcome the adventurers and has been doing so for the last 15 years. Not only by printing the originals, but also with the translations, the magazine wants to fulfill the desire of the readers of many languages. Along the way, we received the help of many. Some came to wonder and stayed with us and still cruising through the rough turf. Some came to dance with us for a while and left for other adventures. We thank both groups and welcome the new pirates who will come along with us for future sagas, since the journey of creation will never end. Read More [From the Editorial: 12th Anniversary Issue] ----------------------------------------- With the publication of this issue, we are celebrating the 12th anniversary of Shabdaguchha. Over these years, the magazine tried to publish the finest poems, both in English and Bengali. There were lots of difficulties fulfilling this goal, nevertheless we believe that we have been pretty successful. The help and support we have received from poets of different languages living in different parts of the world are tremendous. Though poetry is not something that can be sketched successfully in a day or two; continuous effort however makes a poet somewhat confident of what he wants to achieve. Same thing is applicable for a magazine too. Read More [From the Editorial: Previous Issue] ----------------------------------------- নানা মুনির নানা মতই কি বাংলা কবিতার শেষ কথা, নাকি প্রকৃত উৎকর্ষের একটি সুনির্দিষ্ট ব্যাপার রয়েছে? জীবনানন্দ দাশ তো বলেছিলেন ‘কবিতা নানান প্রকার’, কিন্তু তার অর্থ কি দাঁড়ায়, যে যেভাবে পারেন এর ব্যাখ্যা দাঁড় করিয়ে দেবেন? যে যেভাবে পারেন কবিতাকে গ্রহণ করবেন কিম্বা ছুঁড়ে ফেলে দেবেন? ভালো লাগলেই কবিতাকে ভালো বলে প্রচার করবেন আর ভালো না লাগলে উচ্ছিষ্টের কাতারে নিয়ে যাবেন? যা ইচ্ছা তাই বলে কবিকে গালাগাল দেবেন? উপদেশের ফুলঝুরিতে ভরিয়ে তুলবেন কবির চারপাশ? আবার যখন প্রয়োজন হবে গা-ধুয়ে পবিত্র হয়ে সবার আগে এসে কবিকে ফুলের মালা দেবেন? যে সজনীকান্ত দাস ১৯৩৭ সালে, যখন আধুনিক বাংলা কবিতা তার স্বর্ণশিখরে, ‘অতি-আধুনিক কবিতা’ শিরোনামে প্রবন্ধ লিখে পুরো আধুনিকতাকে খারিজ করে দেবেন এই বলে যে ‘বাংলা-কবিতার একরূপ মৃত্যু হইয়াছে’, তিনিই আবার জীবনানন্দের মৃত্যুর পর ফুলের তোড়া হাতে চোখের জল ঢালবেন সবার সামনে!বিস্তারিত [From the Editorial: Issue 39] ----------------------------------------- Although there was great modern poetry in, say, Arabic (Taha Hussein, Khalil Gibran) and Urdu (Mohammed Iqbal), there was not an organized 'modernism' in the Arab world or in the rest of British-ruled India as there was in Bengal. This makes Bangladeshi postmodernism different from poetry written in Middle Eastern or South Asian in a postmodern time . . . —Prof. Nicholas Birns, Guest Editor of the Issue [From the Editorial: Issue 38] ------------------------------------------ But, this poor nation [Bangladesh] would not be able to come up with a suitable solution for the climate change, that is the root cause of this problem. So, the mighty nations of the world may have to rethink about their nuclear power plants, uses of ammunition in the war and dispensing the industrial and automobile waste. If we cannot solve these problems, the world will be hit by stronger hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes. And mostly the poor and populated areas will be affected in a greater scale. People will die not in thousands, but in millions; and eventually one day, we will be extinct as dinosaurs and thousands of other species before us. It is the right time to act. So, I urge the educated people of the world to come forward and make a firm demand to their governments so that they take cautionary measures to eliminate the far greater disasters in future. ------------------------------------------ Remember, only poets have a permanent address. —Humauyn Azad 
Hassanal Abdullah, receiving Klemens Janicki International Award Polish International Poetry Festival, Poznan, 2021 |
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