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Matevski enchants with The Golden Wreath

The Enchanting Poet Award winner for Issue XIII June 2011 has been bestowed with The prestigious The Golden Wreath Laureate in the 50th Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia in August 2011.

K Satchidanandan wins Kusumagraj Award

The Enchanting Verses Editor's Choice winner for ISSUE-X July 2010, received the Kusumagraj National Award for poetry at Nashik on 28th February 2012.

Editorial, Issue XV March 2012
Ah, poetry. What is poetry? Honestly, I do not know. If I knew the answer to that question I guess I would have stopped writing forever but I am glad that’s not the case. Some of the old poets say things like: “In any event poetry, pure literature in general, religion – I include religion, in its essential and undogmatic sense, because poetry and religion, touch each other, or rather modulate each other; are, indeed, often but different names for the same thing – these, I say, the visible signs of mental and emotional life, must like all other thing keep moving, becoming…” Well, Thomas Hardy was hell of a poet. He was a man of enormous talent and he had a keen eye for minute details but I am not the same. We are different. We are not divided by centuries but by the creatures dwelling within us. They feed on modern verses. Poetry is the oldest art form, the first one but we, the poets of today are children of our own time. Nowadays we do use old words but we put them on page in some new way. Poetry is moving on. I am not saying that there will never be again some new Dante, Pushkin or Shakespeare, but me and you and all new poets are the children of modern ways and new dimensions. We write each line with the pain of today. We use the paper of our skin and penetrate our nails deep into the poems. That is how I and all of us write and the craft of poetry is moving on that is evolving.

To be honest I do not like to read poetry from authors that I didn’t find on my own but I was pleasantly surprised to see and read these great poems submitted to The Enchanting Verses Literary Review and I was convinced once again that our Ars Poetica is full of brightly shining talents.
In the new issue of the great magazine The Enchanting Verses Literary Review you can read some of these poets. They are wonderful wordsmiths with deep knowledge about the beauty of poetic lines and the way poetry should sound to depict the true power of verse.

Peycho Kanev,
Guest Editor, ISSUE-XV.

Contributor News

Dimitris wins The Golden Seal Book Award

The Enchanting Poet Award Winner for ISSUE-IV October 2008 has bagged The Golden Seal Book Award 2011 from Artists Embassy International in San Francisco, U.S.A.

Nathalie Handal receives IPPY Award 2011

The Enchanting Verses Editor's Choice winner for ISSUE-XIII June 2011 Nathalie Handal has received the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY Award), 2011

"A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named."

[Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 114 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).]

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