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4th London Poetry Festival 2008

8, 9,10 & 11 August: Friday to Monday

 

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4th London Poetry Festival 2008

8, 9 ,10 & 11 August: Friday to Monday

 

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Five Poets in Residence @ the Festival 2008 are: Anjan Saha, Claire Askew, Helen Long, Nnorom Azuonye and Sharon Harriott

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4th London Poetry Festival 2008: 8, 9,10 and 11 August: Friday to Monday

Waterloo St John's Church, Waterloo Road,  London SE1

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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

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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

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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. To Buy

Buy Munayem Mayenin's 4th Collection: Poetica Rainbow Ryder

Poetica Rainbow Ryder

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Buy Munayem Mayenin's 3rd Collection: The Geography of Time

The Geography of Time

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Buy Munayem Mayenin's 2nd Collection: The Son of Eternity

The Son of Eternity

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