Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust Poetry Prize 2017 : srinivasrayaprol.in

Organisation : Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust
Competition Name : Poetry Prize 2017
Contest Last Date : September 2, 2017
Applicable For : Indian Citizens
Location : Hyderabad
Contest Details : http://www.srinivasrayaprol.in/srinivas-rayaprol-poetry-prize-2017-call-for-entries/
Home Page : http://www.srinivasrayaprol.in/

Poetry Prize :

Entries are invited from Indian citizens between 20-40 years and writing poetry in English for the ninth Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize.

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The Prize was instituted by the Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust to recognize excellence in poetry written in English and is being administered jointly by the Department of English, University of Hyderabad.

The prize consisting of a cash award of Rs.15,000 and a citation will be presented at a literary event in Hyderabad in the month of October 2017. The entries will be judged by a distinguished jury of poets and literary personalities.

Entries must include:
1. Three (3) different, unpublished poems written by the applicant; Please put all the three poems in one single word or pdf document and not separate files.
2. Evidence of age; (scanned copies of passport, driver’s license, pan card, or any other valid id)
3. Complete contact information (including phone numbers and email addresses).

Note: Please do not put your name on the poems to be submitted to the jury members.

Entries must reach preferably by email :
Dr. Aparna Rayaprol, Department of Sociology
Convener, Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad – TS. 500046
rayaproltrust@gmail.com

Last Date: September 2, 2017

Dom Moraes on srinivas rayaprol : Poet whom no one discovered
As has been pointed out, there are no “mute inglorious Miltons”. But in India there is certainly a prodigious waste of talent; and Srinivas Rayaprol may have made a difference to poetry in English given a more encouraging setting, writes DOM MORAES.

In the 1940s, what is now thought of as Indian poetry in English hadn’t started. There were books of verse by people such as Fredoon Kabraji, who referred to himself as a minor Georgian, some 30 years after that movement had ended in England. There were others: Adi K. Sett. V.K. Gokak. Humayun Kabir. Most of them had their volumes of verse published at their own expense: most of these volumes were bad. But for me. an adolescent who read not only Auden, Eliot, cummings.

Dylan Thomas et al. but also the French symbolists. Rilke, Lorca. and the Italians. starting with Montale. this was all very disappointing. Nissim Ezekiel returned from England a bit later and introduced some sense of discipline and criticism into Indian poetry in English.

But even before him I was amazed when a magazine started to appear from Secunderabad. East and West edited by a poet who spelt his name in lower case, like e e cummings, srinivas rayaprol. I remembered this publication for a number of years. and the editor also.

l have never met the editor: but this was the first Indian poet. Tagore apart. who appeared to have international connections. Tagore knew some of’ the best Western poets of his time. Pound, Yeats. and Frost. Rayaprol or rayaprol seemed to have become acquainted in America with people like William Carlos Williams. Yvor Winters. and James Laughlin. At about this lime. when I was 15. I met Laughlin in Bombay and he mentioned rayaprol.

He mentioned him with affection. I cannot say that l greatly liked rayaprol’s work: but as an editor he published such people as Henry Miller and Williams. and a number of unknown young Indian poets. That they have remained unknown can hardly be said to be rayaprol’s fault. He seemed passionately engaged with literature. and few others in India were.

East and West closed down, as most literary magazines do, and for years I heard nothing of its editor. But some time in the late ’80s. I had a long talk with Bruce King, the Canadian critic then writing on Indian poetry in English.

Contact Us :
Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust
c/o Prof. Aparna Rayaprol, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad,
Prof C R Rao Road, P O Central University, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India 500046.
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