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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]
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.
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]
Das GEDICHT ([ɡəˈdɪçt] ⓘ) (German lit. 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.
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.
Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame [a] (1943 – 18 August 2022), known by the pseudonym Hadrawi, [b] was a Somali poet, philosopher and songwriter. Having written many notable protest works, Hadrawi has been likened by some to Shakespeare, [1] and his poetry has been translated into various languages.