Mr Joe Winter, a renowned British poet, at Chakdaha Ramlal Academy скачать в хорошем качестве

Mr Joe Winter, a renowned British poet, at Chakdaha Ramlal Academy

Joe Winter, a renowned British poet Joe Winter is a retired schoolmaster. He devoted himself to writing after his early retirement from teaching at a school in London in 1993. His teaching career spanned over 26 years. He never wants to lose link with teaching. From 1994 to 2006 he lived in Kolkata, India, where he taught and wrote for The Statesman and translated Bengali prose and poetry. He has written several books of poetry and translated some great poems of Tagore, Jibananda Das and some modern writers into English. His books Indian Song, Song Offerings by Rabindranath Tagore, Bengal the Beautiful and Calcutta Song are some of his major works. Mr. Winter came over to our school with Mr. Alok Biswas, a close friend of his, at our invitation. He interactively spoke to the students about poetry. Mr. Biswas talked to them at intervals. They listened to these two distinguished teachers spellbound. They gained some insight into reading and writing poetry.