Must Read Books For World Poetry Day
- Bisma
- Mar 20, 2019
- 3 min read
Blog article written for client (Zypher) to promote their poetry books on the occasion of World Poetry Day.
March 21 is celebrated as World Poetry Day. So for this week, we at Zypher—India’s best book rental platform brings you a list of books that you can binge on to celebrate this wonderful day of poetry.
You can’t say poetry without thinking about Tagore. Gitanjali is a collection of Tagore’s 100 most beautiful poems that fetched him worldwide recognition and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. The poems speak of patriotism, heterosexual relationships, life, and death and make you ponder for a long time.
If you haven’t read it before, what better day than today to begin, and if you’ve read it earlier, visit it again today.
Vikram Seth’s novel follows the lives of a group of young adults in San Francisco. Inspired by the work of Pushkin in Eugene Onegin, Seth adopted a similar novel in verse style for The Golden Gate. If you’re someone who’s more fan of novels and stories, then this is the perfect read for you on World Poetry Day as you indulge in the best of both the worlds.
The Tirrukural or shortly known as Kural are sacred verses written by Saint Thiruvalluvar in 450-500 CE. A classic from ancient Tamil literature, the book is often known as The Universal Veda or Universal Code of Conduct because of its secular, all-inclusive nature. The verses speak of morality, spirituality, and humanity. If you’re in a mood to self introspect, reading an original or a translation will provide you with much-needed insight.
In today’s times where everything is fast-paced and our attention spans have considerably reduced, Terribly Tiny Tales sought to fit this social media generation and gave rise to a modern literature genre ‘microfiction’. After the success of their first book, TTT collaborates with Penguin India to create a book of poems, or as they like to call it ‘pictures’ for their niche audience and gift them their love in the form of this book.
If you love to dive into free-verse poetry that speaks about love, heartbreak, social issues, then you must pick up this book to read.
This poignant and hauntingly beautiful book highlights the struggle of widows of India. The book speaks about misogyny, sexism, celibacy, infidelity, sexual desires and more. It doesn’t shy from calling spade a spade and raises awareness about women’s mental health that is often ignored.
This unapologetically honest book is a must-read for the month of March, or truthfully, a must-read at any given point of time.
What is a blog about World Poetry Day if it doesn’t tell you about a book that teaches you to write poetry. Stephen Fry rightly believes that you as long as you know a language, you can be a poet. So pick up this book, and explore a new identity of yourself as a poet.
Divided into four parts, this book speaks about various issues. The first part delves into the sensitive subject matter of sexual assault, the second part is light and speaks of healing, optimism, and self-love; in the third part, Rupi weaves the tragedy of heartbreak while the final part is all about redemption and empowerment.
As a poet, Kaur has managed to make the world aware and sensitive towards women by the power of her words.
A collection of poetry and short stories written by multiple women on the true nature and harsh realities of motherhood. From Sarojini Naidu to Anita Roy, at least 19 women have contributed their thoughts and experiences on surrogacy, abortion, infertility, and various other topics pertaining to motherhood that are often kept under wraps. This World Poetry Day, uncover these secrets written in verse and prose form.
For years, patriarchal society has laid down certain notions and ideas that women must follow in order to become ‘suitable’ for the men in their lives. This book contains prose and poetry about women who decided to break the norms and to be unsuitable. From Kerala’s Nangeli who severed her breasts to oppose the oppression of Dalit women to Leila Seth, the first female Justice of a State High Court. Poetry and art when used to overthrow and break the monotony of order, is art distilled to its purest form.
Happy World Poetry Day once again! Zypher offers you the option to rent unlimited books at affordable prices so that you get to read more and spend less.
Hope you folks enjoy the books that we’ve suggested. If you plan to read other poetry books, share the list with us. If you read the ones we’ve recommended, comment your views.
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