Poetry
Serendipity
Wake me up every morning as dawn becomes a new day.
WB Yeats’s ‘Easter, 1916’ and Bangladesh’s July 1-36, 2024
What motivated our youth to defy death in order to free Bangladesh from the yoke of a brutal regime?
POETRY / October: An unfinished poem
Glamorous lightweight raindrops from the October sky keep
POETRY / Silence
A star fell on the ground in the windy night
POETRY / Republic of the dead
As if playing a game of chess / Still the world waits for the next dawn
POETRY / Sinking in ink
Don’t you see— I can only write dark.
POETRY / Devi
The first pulse, in the midst of a whipping maelstrom,
POETRY / The wheel of change
Eternity collapses at the wheel of change. / Past is lost
POETRY / Fall
August, marked with dying things. Summer’s end, / My freedom spent
The best that we read this year
We asked the DS Books editors and contributors about the books that most moved them this year.
Time
It's June–the first day of Summer, You have never come home empty-handed, And I stand by our apartment door, Eye the lift as it totes between floors.
Leaf
I saw a leaf falling yesterday. The wind took the leaf on its back then disappeared.
Un-Red
She reminds me of Desdemona,/ A character, a wife, a tramp, but never human! So maybe she was a witch, / Maybe sirens were witches too,
from it, poetry arrives
bits and pieces of her day/ get stuck in her hair/ she carries grief quietly
Emily Dickinson: A prodigy prosodist of Modern literature
Dickinson shows that mellifluousness of language is what gives a heightened attribute to the essence of a poesy.
Slam Poetry Nights 4 goes to Gulshan Paara Uthshab
SHOUT and Daily Star Books jointly organise the Slam Poetry Nights once every month to offer a platform for conversations on art, personal freedom, and the issues urgent to the country’s people, all through the lens of poetry.
SHOUTxDS Books presents 'Slam Poetry Nights' — Episode 3
The December session arrives on Friday, December 2, at the Gulshan Paara Utshab at 3:00-3:45 PM.
Words of Love
Thoughts of a devoted poet
On poet Sufia Kamal: A revolutionary journey
She came out from the cocoon of the accepted designated roles of women and marched forward to live an extraordinary life.