Saudha International Literature Festival|Re-reading Lorca, Nazrul & Hikmet

Curated by poet T M Ahmed Kaysher, this session of Saudha International Literature Festival is shedding new lights on the three anti-fascist poets of the last century Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1966) Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) to read and re-interpret fascism and other socio-political paradigms of contemporary world; romanticism and other relevant literature-movements.

The session involves insightful talks by renowned poets and academics, a series of haunting spoken word as well as music performances.

The festival has been supported by Mayor's Small Grant Programme of Tower Hamlets Council and A Season of Bangla Drama.

As part of Saudha International Literature Festival, poet Ahmed Kaysher is bringing hypnotic theatrical production of visceral spoken-words and haunting music that re-interprets the heart-piercing poetry and the tragic life of a major modern poet of English literature Sylvia Plath.
Saudha ( www.saudha.org ) is bringing new literature from different languages and different cultural heritages through this unique festival happening all around the UK.

Saudha Society of Poetry and Indian Music ( www.saudha.org ) is a leading platform for South Asian as well other global classical arts. Saudha is critically acclaimed for its series of experimental productions merging poetry, music and painting seamlessly so that each can complement each other. Saudha attracted a diverse source of audiences from all different heritages through its series of presentations of mingling and bridging different arts from different corners of the world as the way of interpreting each other. Saudha's production Songs of Sringar and Seduction & Frida Kahlo Through Indian classical music at the Royal Albert Hall has been highly praised by prominent ethno-musicologists, music and literature connoisseurs of the city and beyond. Saudha's lyrics of Love at the SouthBank Centre and at Edinburgh Fringe and Chayanaut through Sebastian Bach at the House of Commons, Taste of Twilight at ICCR, Kolkata and the Welsh Parliament were critically acclaimed by major media and musicologists. During Covid, Saudha took the first ever and historic initiative to connect leading musicians of the globe, writers, poets, painters and filmmakers from all across the world through social media platforms and the sessions were hugely appreciated by the audiences from all around the globe.

Host or Publisher Saudha, Society of Poetry and Indian Music (www.saudha.org)