The Poetry Society (India)
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Email Address: hkkaul@gmail.com
Editor/Founder: Dr. H.K.Kaul
Country: India
Type: Organization
Description: In the past TPS has organised several seminars, readings, workshops, lectures, competitions and the releases of poetry anthologies. The Poetry workshops conducted by Henry Taylor, Prof. Nissim Ezekiel, Dr. Tom Paulin and Brian Patten were found useful by the poets in our early years. Thereafter many well-known poets conducted poetry workshops. Readings by many Indian and by foreign poets too, are organized by the Society almost every month. We have also been organizing the All-India Poetry Competitions Among School Children with the support of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Four such national poetry competitions for school children have already been organized. TPS has also been organizing with the support of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education the Creative Writing Workshops for students writing poetry in Indian languages. Such Creative Writing Workshops have been organized in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Karnataka and Kerala. The Poetry Society (India) also publishes the Journal. It was started in 1990. It is regularly getting published. Poems written by some of the best Indian poets in English and other Indian languages have been published in English in the Journal.
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Go to website
Email Address: hkkaul@gmail.com
Editor/Founder: Dr. H.K.Kaul
Country: India
Type: Organization
Description: In the past TPS has organised several seminars, readings, workshops, lectures, competitions and the releases of poetry anthologies. The Poetry workshops conducted by Henry Taylor, Prof. Nissim Ezekiel, Dr. Tom Paulin and Brian Patten were found useful by the poets in our early years. Thereafter many well-known poets conducted poetry workshops. Readings by many Indian and by foreign poets too, are organized by the Society almost every month. We have also been organizing the All-India Poetry Competitions Among School Children with the support of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Four such national poetry competitions for school children have already been organized. TPS has also been organizing with the support of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education the Creative Writing Workshops for students writing poetry in Indian languages. Such Creative Writing Workshops have been organized in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Karnataka and Kerala. The Poetry Society (India) also publishes the Journal. It was started in 1990. It is regularly getting published. Poems written by some of the best Indian poets in English and other Indian languages have been published in English in the Journal.
(Directory entry)
