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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.
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 ...
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]
Sheekh Ahmed Gabyow was a famous Somali poet and warrior mullah from the Abgaal Hawiye clan. Gabyow lived in the coastal areas north of Mogadishu in the first few decades of the Italian occupation. He was well known for the masafo reciting and producing several dozen as a genre of Somali poetry that is usually composed by religious men. [1] [2]
Modern Poetry in Translation is a literary magazine and publisher based in the United Kingdom. The magazine was started by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort in 1965. [1] It was relaunched by King's College London in 1992. [2] The college published it until 2003. [2] It publishes contemporary poetry from all around the world, in English.
Ordinarily, Somali poets produce volumes of oral literature full of tribal feud, but Yamyam was an academic type; thus, he refrained from using poetry and plays to "side with any of opposing sides", [11] although he remained in Mogadishu throughout the 1990s, when Mogadishu was the epicenter of the Somali civil war.
Osman Yusuf Kenadid. While Osmanya gained reasonably wide acceptance in Somalia and quickly produced a considerable body of literature, it proved difficult to spread among the population mainly due to stiff competition from the long-established Arabic script as well as the emerging Somali Latin alphabet developed by a number of leading scholars of Somali, including Musa Haji Ismail Galal, B. W ...