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LAHORE: Marsiya, a genre of Urdu poetry can trace its origins to the subcontinent, said an expert on Urdu language, literature, and poet Dr Arfa Zehra. She expressed these views during a session ...

Birth, most people would agree, is a fairly important event. And poetry, most people would agree, tends to focus on subjects of intense emotional significance. So one would think the poetry of early ...

Poets in Nigeria struggle to earn a living, and this have a very detrimental effect on their self-esteem and art and I believe it is almost the same all over the world. According to Soul’e Rhymez in ...

LOVE and beloved are one of the central themes in classical Urdu poetry. Classical poets express their extreme love for the sweetheart. But there is a remote yet distinct possibility that a poet may ...

Last year, some impressive works of poetry came out, in the genres of both nazm and ghazal. They not only have literary merit but are also relevant in the current political and social context. One of ...

It’s a rare poet who can write movingly about African migration to Europe and also tweet humorously about the VH1 reality show “Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta.” Every generation of writers and readers has ...

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Poetry is a beautiful art, which involves a lot of creativity just like other genres of art, but it seems it struggles to find its feat, compared to other genres of art. Poets in Nigeria struggle to ...