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London Poetry
Festival Team
London Poetry Festival Team comprised
of with The Festival Director and a great number of volunteers without whose
support the Festival would not take place.
We always welcome people's
contributions by way of giving us their time and enthusiasm for poetry. We are
going to need a lot of volunteers to help us organise and manage the four-day
events. Please contact us if you would like to get involved. We are looking for people
from London and from those living outside London but would be in London at the
festival period and therefore, no applications are sought from outside UK.
So
please if you have some time do send us an email or call.
Festival Director:
Munayem
Mayenin email: m.mayenin
dot londonpoetryfestival dot com
Munayem Mayenin
Photo: Kerry-Fleur
Schleifer
Photo
1: Photo Credit: Kerry-Fleur Schleifer
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2: Photo Credit: Nazma Khanum
Read Munayem
Mayenin's Interview in The
Guardian: Sept 15, 2007
Munayem Mayenin
Watch
Munayem Mayenin's Interview on British Satellite News Channel on the eve of 2nd
London Poetry Festival 2006 and the launch of Poet's Letter print Magazine. Click
Here
Munayem
Mayenin is an author, poet, philosopher and editor who writes all genres of
creative writings including Children's Literature, Philosophy and other areas of
Sociological Studies. He lives poetry and wonders Philosophy and tries to live
life as "The Tiny Brilliance" that aspires, entices, lures and
fascinates him as much as it pains him, disturbs him and thereby forces him to
seek and wonder through his writings so that he could try and find means to live
life and celebrate living and the arts of words, ideas and thoughts.. Indeed he
takes life to be the ultimate miracle; everyday that unfolds itself before
him in a new dawn, Mayenin surely looks at it as the biggest of magic that could
unfold before us to behold, inhale and exhale and to say: "Goodness, what
an astonishingly amazing experience this is! This being alive!"
Mayenin
has four published collections of poetry including : The Geography of Time.
ISBN: 1-4137-4403-6: Poetica
Rainbow Ryder: ISBN 0 7552 05 0. The
Son of Eternity: ISBN: 1-4137-2545-7. and Command the Moon: ISBN: 1 85863 012 6
with another 23 collections of poetry that await publication.
Dehumanisation
of Humanity (four volumes to be published), first volume is at the publishers
and expected to be published next year. Psychology of Zooman (to be published),
Theory of the Universe (to be published).
Mayenin writes effortlessly in
all genres of creative writings including short and micro stories, novels,
poetry, children's lit and screen plays. Some of his philosophical works have
been published on the Philosophy Pathways journal of the International Society
for Philosophers.
Mayenin
edited The Poet's
Letter Poetry Anthology of New Voices (London, 2005). He co-edited
Slivers: An Anthology of South Asian Poetry in Britain, which was published in
London in 1997.
Mayenin
worked as a freelance journalist for many years, has written for many newspapers
both in England and other countries across the world.
He worked as a civil servant
serving education, adult education and informal education, mother tongue and
supplementary education, and Social Services. He spent several years involved in
teaching Bangla language and literature at School of Oriental and African
Studies-SOAS (University of London), University of Westminster and Adult
Education Services of Tower Hamlets and Newham (teaching Bangla and Sylheti).
Mayenin worked many years as an Examiner for Sylheti and Bangla Languages for
The Institute of Linguists.
Other
works include (not yet published) include: The Anatomy of Fear, Infinite Avenues
Avenues Infinite, She, Of Mice and Men, (Novels), The United Colours of Blood
(Screenplay), Microsphere (Microstory collection), Children's Novels,
Children’s Stories, Children’s Poetry and Plays. Mayenin has made England
his home and lives in London with his wife, and three children. He was born in
the mid sixties and studied Bangla Language and Literature in addition to
English, French, Greek, Persian, Sanskrit and Russian Literature as well as
Linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology as part of his B.A (Honours) degree under
University of Chittagong and read MA in the same areas of studies but left
Bangladesh before sitting the exams.
He
studied science (Mathematics, Physics, Botany, Zoology and Chemistry) up to
college intending to be a physician, which later modified into becoming a
Chemist or a Physicist until the university opened up the doors of literature
for him! He never puts too much emphasis on academic niceties of studies but
found everything and anything interesting and read worthy, only excluding
Accounting (with no disrespect to the subject or the profession it supports)! He
studied Bangla Language and Literature with World Literature including the great
classical and modern European, African and Latin American literature and poetry
including of course, English, French and German literature while Eastern and
Western Philosophy provided the food of his soul and mind during his “mad
university days” as he would like to put it.
Mayenin
attended and read at The First Prague International Poetry Festival 2004 and
attended and presented a Philosophy Paper (On Dehumanisation of Humanity) at the
12th Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference (October 2005) at The New School
University, New York.
He
edits and publishes The Poet's Letter Magazine: a monthly online poetry,
literature, philosophy, politics, arts and music publication. (First Published
in March 2004) and he organises, hosts and reads The Poet's Letter Magazine
Poetry Performance and Live Music Series at Covent Garden Poetry Cafe (Every
Second Monday of the Month). He writes songs too.
Mayenin
is a father of three wonderful children: Ohie (10), Saahia (6) and Raaneem
(almost 3!), lives and writes in London and is separated.
Mayenin
loves and lives poetry which is the voice of his soul. As an author Mayenin’s
consciousness is deeply rooted in the philosophical conviction that he is
morally obliged to continue to promote, foster and discharge his social and
moral responsibilities towards the humanion he feels so deeply a part of.
He
believes himself to be a citizen of the mother universe and his works call
humanity to a universal humanion of humankind in the
cosmosian theatre of life
in this beautiful infinite universe. He opposes any other forms of identities in
favour of a Nation of Humanity on this Blue Planet.
Read
from 27
Collections of Poetic Works of Munayem
Mayenin
Website
In
Spanish
Telephone: 07935 791 607
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Dehumanisation
of Humanity Volume I is Released
Poet's
Letter Editor Munayem Mayenin's philosophical works: Dehumanisation
of Humanity, Volume I (of IV), 511 pages, has just been released.
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