Choyon Khairul Habib's Poetry Evening


Choyon Khairul Habib was born in Dhaka, now capital of Bangladesh in 1965.

At the age of six in 1971 Choy had to endure the life of a refugee along with 5 other siblings for 9months when his parents decided to leave Dhaka to escape the gruesome brutality of the Pakistani government unleashed on the Bengalis.

Back in the 1980’s Choy was an infant terrible in his hometown. Teaming up with Kajal Shaahnewaz, Ahmed Muzib and few other insane poets he contributed significantly in shaping a distinctive voice in contemporary Bengali poetry; later years what was to be called the voice of the eighties: core-hedonism mixed up with prophetic introversion.

Choy left Bangladesh in the early part of the Ninetieis.Mingling with Gypsies, drag queens and poets from all over the world he screamed Bangla poetry to his hearts content in French markets. He had his stints as airline clerk, broadcast Journalist, translator and in innumerable restaurants he served almost everyone on the planet! He is earning his livelihood in drinks trade at present as a qualified connoisseur in London.

Date:	23 December 2008
Time:	05:30pm - 07:30pm
Location:	Montefiore Centre
	Hanbury Street E1, Tube- Algate East & Whitechaple
	London

-Introduction
-Discussion by Shamim Azad, Imtiar Shamim & T M Ahmed Kaisher
-Choyon's love poems by Apu Chowdhury and Leesa Gaji
-Choyon's selected poems recital by Kontho-Probash
-Latest work,a long verse on the Bangladeshi sculptress Novera read by the poet
-A musical presentation of Choyon's elegy on indegeneous activist Cholesh Ritchil by Pinu Sattar


All Wel-come

Mohammed Belal Ahmed
Monjurul Azim Palash

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In association with Surma Literature Section & Kontho Probash