Training in poetry writing organised
RSS
POKHARA, Dec 28 : A week-long training on knowledge of metres in poems organised with an objective of encouraging the trend of writing poems in metres by removing the distortions in Nepali poems, concluded here yesterday.
Altogether 50 persons took part in the training.
The training was organised by the Namuna Sahitya Samuha under a nationwide "Save the Metre" campaign where litterateur and linguist Mukunda Sharan Upadhyay gave away certificates.
Madhav Biyogi of the metrical campaign said it should be developed as a collective campaign in Nepali literature.
At the function presided over by Samuha president Ganesh Sharma, various speakers including Samuha advisor Kusumakar Neupane, Dr. Bhupati Dhakal, youth poet Ramesh Shrestha, Janapriya campus chief Ganesh Palikhe, Dr. Rabi Lal Adhikari, Surya Khadka "Bikharchi", Rajendra Chapagain Ahat and Madhav Raj Timilsina expressed their views.
Similarly, the 119 th birthday of late Kavi Shiromani Lekhanath Poudel is being organised on December 30 in Arghau Archale with various programmes.
The programme to be organised jointly by the Lekhanath Literary Academy Nepal, and the Kavi Shiromani Literary Council will include literary awareness, cleaning of statue of Lekhanath at Arghau, felicitation of singer Khim Bahadur Gandharba, said academy president Krishna Prasad Banstola
