World Poetry Day observed

Lahore: The English Literary Society and Progressive Writers Association marked the World Poetry Day at Pak Tea House. Dr Kanwal Feroze presided over the event. According to a press release, Ghulam Hussain Sajid, Prof Anwar-ul-Haq and Comrade Tanveer were the chief guests of the event. The poets said the earliest noted poetry began with Iliad and Odyssey by Greek poet Homer. The earliest English poetry was Anglo Saxon poetry. A Poet reforms and criticises the society through his poetry. “Poetry provides sensorial pleasure, inculcates mysticism and explores consciousness. It makes way for social protest as well as political progressivism. The human being and where he resides is the theme of progressive poetry,” they said. Dr Jawaz Jafri, Asnath Kanwal, Rubia Jilani, Comrade Shafique, Javaid Aftab, Zahid Hassan, Zahid Nabi, Aqeel Akhtar, Raza Naeem, Mian Salah-ud-Din, Munawar Sultana and Parveen Sijal Anjum Qureshi expressed their views on the occasion.