GOAN POET ON NDTV WEBSITE (www.ndtv.com) 4 recent poems of dr brian mendonca, 3 of which are on goa, are currently on view at the website of new delhi television, india's largest private producer of news, current affairs and entertainment television.
The poems were earlier read to a highly appreciative audience on may 18th at 'poets cafe' a forum for creative fusion organised by 'katha' a new delhi based group working in the area of translation.The poems are 'sonya','homecoming', 'in conclusion' and 'sousa lobo'. Other poems read at the venue included 'Fr joseph rowland salema' on the parish priest of siolim on the feast day of st anthony and 'fugitive.' brian also read poems in portuguese - 'barcos' and 'inscricao' - from the collection of maria andressen entitled 'mar'(2001). brian said that a poem of his was like a photograph seeking to capture the memory of a specific time and space. brian linked his poetry reading to the cataclysmic social changes goa is going through due to 'development'and stated that it was his intention to tell the truth like it is. he ended with singing and accompanying himself on the guitar to the dulpod 'hundra mhojea mama'. at the end brian invited the audience to take away copies of some poems from his corpus of poems which the milling crowd were only too delighted to do.at he beginning he had also displayed his published work on lengths of thermacol, which made the audience take him more seriously as a writer and poet. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
