Dylan Thomas Photography Competition
#mymilkwood
This is Llaregyb Hill, old as the hills,
high, cool, and green…
you can see all the town below you sleeping in the first of the dawn.
Dylan Thomas,
UNDER MILK WOOD
DylanDay 2023 – Gianpiero Actis
Category: #DylanDay
LOVE THE WORDS: Lidia Chiarelli is one of the winners of 2022 Poetry Contest for Dylan Thomas’ celebration
Lidia Chiarelli’s Installations for DYLANDAY 2022-#dylanday
“My Liquid World” (amid winds of war), poem by Lidia Chiarelli, Italy
My liquid world
(amid winds of war)
to Dylan Thomas
This ashen day in March
opens with dancing shadows –
images carved in the air
of the spring still too far.
An insidious mist enshrouds me
in crescendo.
Among echoes in subtle vibration
teach me, Dylan, to seek shelter in
my liquid world
take me to feel the pulse
of the tides that ceaselessly
ebb and flow
and while time and space dissolve
in the primordial roar of the Ocean
lead me to fly away, with you, from
the void … of this bewilderment and of that insanity*
* from: Although through my bewildered way
Lidia Chiarelli, Italy
#dylanday #lovethewords
“Water Prayer” – to Dylan Thomas, Son of the Sea, poem by Lidia Chiarelli, Italy
Water Prayer
to Dylan, Son of the Sea
Seagulls and restless rooks
challenge the wind
on this winter morning.
Under a pearl sky
the waves sing the rising sun –
the first glimpse of light on the horizon
fades too soon.
Here and now
Dylan’s words resound:
The waters of the heart
push in their tides…*
And from the ancient cliff
I pause and listen to
the voice of the sea:
a water prayer
that softly evaporates
among the fleeing clouds.
*from: Light breaks where no sun shines
Lidia Chiarelli, Italy
#dylanday #lovethewords
Lidia Chiarelli’s MOON CALENDAR HAIKU
Images and Haiku by Lidia Chiarelli are published in THE SINDH COURIER (Pakistan – Editor Nasir Aijaz) and they are the response to #LoveTheWords invitation to write haiku inspired by Dylan Thomas’ verse “HOW TIME HAS TICKED A HEAVEN ROUND THE STARS”.
#LoveTheWords – #DylanDay – #Infinitybooksuk
Lidia Chiarelli participa en el Día Internacional de la Poesía – Academia Argentina De Literatura Moderna –
Visión de nuevos mundos (a Dylan Thomas)
Video poema de Lidia Chiarelli en homenaje al poeta Dylan Thomas para el
Día Internacional de la Poesía
Lidia Chiarelli for #DylanDay 2021
Installation by Lidia Chiarelli with a painting by Gianpiero Actis
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HOW TIME HAS TICKED A HEAVEN ROUND THE STARS – Dylan Thomas
Digital Art and haiku by Lidia Chiarelli
#DylanDay 2018 in Kolkata, India – photo gallery
#DylanDay 2018 in Kolkata, India
Event Report
Rhythm Divine Poets celebrated the International Dylan Thomas Day, or Dylan Day as it is commonly referred to, in India for the first time this year. The event, which took place in the historical city of Kolkata, was held in the beautiful apartment of Professor Tathagata Sen of Bhawanipur Education Society College. It consisted of an academic discussion on Modernity and the poetry of Dylan Thomas by noted academicians, and a Dylan-inspired poetry reading session.
At the onset of the academic discussion, Dr. Shubhadeep Paul spoke on “Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan: Transtextual Interlacings & Creative Mistranslations”, thus looking at Dylan the poet AND Dylan, the man from the same vantage point. Dr. Sudeshna Chakravorti spoke about the Difference in Dylan Thomas’s Approach to Life and Art as opposed to the other modernists like Eliot, stressing on the importance of an ‘opposing’ or a different voice in societal or literary spaces. Prof. Aparna singh chose to speak on the Critical Reception of the works of Dylan Thomas, speaking of the critics who praised him, as well as the ones who wrote him off. This entire session of academic discussions was moderated by Ms. Sufia Khatoon.
A beautiful poetry reading session followed the formal talk. All the poems recited were influenced by the life and works of Dylan Thomas in some way or the other. For instance, Nikita Parik (Poet, and Chief Coordinator for this event in particular) created a repartee of ‘A Refusal to Mourn the Death’ by fusing the death of the little girl in London with that of children in Kashmir. Sufia Khatoon read a poem on existences and the cycle of life and death, themes that are recurrent in the poetry of Dylan Thomas. The beautiful evening came to an end with the official release of Green is the Colour of Memory, a poetry anthology by Huzaifa Pandit, winner of the international Poetry Chapbook competition organised by Rhythm Divine Poets.
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Rhythm Divine Poets is a poets’ group founded by three poets- Sufia Khatoon, Dr. Amit Shankar Saha and Anindita Bose.The poets of this group, from all over India as well as abroad, primarily share poems on a daily basis over Facebook and whatsapp groups, as well as curate literary events and festivals with the intention to serve poetry as a form of art as well as to use poetry for aesthetic, therapeutic and philanthropic purposes. They have organized poetry festivals and poetic gatherings at schools, colleges, universities, cafes, restaurants, NGOs, philanthropic groups, Embassies (American embassy, Russian Embassy, French Embassy,) Kolkata International Book Fair, Kolkata International Music Festival, and so on, with the aim of associating with all sectors of the society to make poetry reachable and loved.
– Nikita April
[Youth Coordinator- Rhythm Divine Poets]
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