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Somali poetry features obligatory alliteration, similar in some respects to the requirements of Germanic alliterative verse. [4] There is a crucial distinction between the different forms of Somali poetry. The forms differ by number of syllables in each verse of poem. [5]
This is a list of Somali poets. Somali society is synonymous with poetry and also has a longstanding oratory tradition. [1] Of internationally available published verse, Arabic poetry has the oldest and most diverse corpus. With Greater Somalia's proximity to the Middle East, similar attachments to poetry exist in Somali culture and traditions ...
The Poem), established 1993, is the largest poetry magazine in the German-speaking world. [1] It was founded by the poet and publisher Anton G. Leitner together with Ludwig Steinherr . Between 1994 and 2007 as well as between 2020 and 2022, Leitner served as its sole editor.
Defunct literary magazines published in Germany (31 P) Pages in category "Literary magazines published in Germany" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Elmi Boodhari (Somali: Cilmi Ismaaciil Liibaan, Arabic: علمي اسماعيل ليبان) (1908 – 1941) was a Somali poet and pioneer in the genre of Somali love poems. He is known among Somalis as the King of Romance (Boqorkii Jacaylka). [ 1 ]
Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf, London, 2018. Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf is a contemporary Somali poet who has lived in exile in Britain since over 25 years. [1]Yusuf's dual-language Somali-English collection The Sea-Migrations was named as one of 2017's best poetry books of the year by both Jeremy Noel-Tod and Carol Rumens.
Somalis have a long tradition of poetry, with several well-developed forms of verse. Of these, the gabay ( epic poem ) is considered the height of poetic attainment, and is usually composed by men. Its female counterpart is the buraanbur, which is of a lighter measure ( miisaan ). [ 1 ]
Ali Dhuh's most famous contribution to Somali poetry is the Guba poems, a series of poems he initiated after the Habar Yoonis conquest of the Ogaden, in which they uprooted the native Ogadens and took in to possession huge swathes of land and thousands of camels. Historian Siegbert Uhlig commenting on the Guba poem writes the following-[note 1]