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Poetry: At the Heart of the Nation

About the Journal

The Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL) runs the journal titled “Poetry: At the Heart of the Nation” which features creative works like poetry, book reviews, translations, etc.

The Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL) is a non-profit organization that aims to generate academic interest towards poetry, nurture creativity and reading habits. The IPPL is committed to bringing poetry to the heart of the nation. Luminaries like Sankha Ghosh (Former President, Advisory Board), Bashabi Fraser (Chief Ideator and President, Advisory Board), Sanjukta Dasgupta (President), Jaydeep Sarangi (Vice President) are associated with IPPL.  

The Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata draws on the model of The Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, Scotland. Conceptualized as a unique national resource centre of recognized excellence for poetry, the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library boasts of a pan Indian outlook and aspires to become a veritable home of creative minds—to bring people and poems together nationally and forge lasting ties with the international writing community, thus building a worldwide audience for Indian poetry, and an audience for international poetry in India. A firm believer in the power of the pen, the IPPL also seeks to find avenues of exchange between poetry, translations of poetry from different Indian languages and other forms of visual & performing arts so as to heighten the impact of the arts on contemporary life and society and make poetry and the arts the means of societal uplift and intercultural exchange as well.

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