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Biography

Munayem Mayenin is an English Author, Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Screenplay Writer, Song Writer, Children’s Writer, Thinker, Editor, Festival and Events Director who writes all genres of creative writings including Philosophical and Sociological Studies. In short: Mayenin is an Imagination Worker, writing and living away the wonders of life; areally in words, ideas and thoughts he lives and writes the areal business of the magic, music and magnanimity of life and living. OOOOOOMayenin's aesthetics is arealism, philosophy humanics and breath of his identity comes from belonging to the humanion of humanity that flowers in an overwhelming awe of a bloom on the surface of the Mother Earth; at home in the wondrous infinite Universe he sings the joys and wonders of life. OOOOOOMunayem Mayenin is the Festival Director of London Poetry Festival, Editor of Poets' Letter Magazine, Poet in Residence at Southwark Libraries, father of three children and author of 14 published books of poetry, sonnet, prozzitry, poetic romantic fiction, philosophy and novel. OOOOOOMayenin edited 'The Poets’ Letter Poetry Anthology of New Voices' (London, 2005). He co-edited 'Slivers: An Anthology of South Asian Poetry in Britain', which was published in London in 1997. OOOOOOMayenin wrote for many publications in the UK, America and internationally in the 90s, edited many publications and has been involved closely with the publishing and media industry. Mayenin has made appearances through interviews in the following: The Guardian, The Observer, The Writer’s News, The New Age, The Poetry Life and Times, The BBC Radio 4, BBC Asian Network, BBC World Service, LBC Radio, British Satellite News, Nikki Bedi Show, Channel S Television and more. OOOOOOMayenin studied Bangla Language and Literature in addition to English, French, Greek, Persian, Sanskrit, German, Spanish and Russian Literature as well as Linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology as part of his B.A (Honours) degree under University of Chittagong and read MA in the same areas of studies but left Bangladesh before sitting the exams. OOOOOOHe studied science (Mathematics, Physics, Botany, Zoology and Chemistry) up to college intending to be a physician, which later modified into becoming a Chemist or a Physicist until the university opened up the doors of literature and arts for him! In addition to his subjects he read great classical and modern European, African and Latin American literature and poetry including, of course, English, French and German literature as well as Philosophy, Psychology and Islamic History while Eastern and Western Philosophy provided the food of his soul and mind. OOOOOOHe studied Journalism at National Council for the Training of Journalists, City University and London School of Journalism in the nineties in addition to his studies in Youth and Informal Education (Canterbury and Christ Church University College), Special Educational Needs (Brunel University) and Public Sector Management (Trnas-Atlantic College). OOOOOOHe worked as a civil servant serving education, adult education and informal education, mother tongue and supplementary education, and social services. He spent several years involved in teaching Bangla language and literature at School of Oriental and African Studies-SOAS (University of London), University of Westminster and Adult Education Services of Tower Hamlets and Newham (teaching Bangla and Sylheti). OOOOOOMayenin worked many years as an Examiner for Sylheti and Bangla Languages for The Institute of Linguists and has spent many years involved in community initiatives and festivals in London. OOOOOOMayenin’s poetry has so far been translated and published in Spanish, Mongolian and Arabic. OOOOOOMayenin attended and read at The First Prague International Poetry Festival 2004 and attended and presented a Philosophy Paper (On Dehumanisation of Humanity) at the 12th Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference (October 2005) at The New School University, New York. OOOOOOMayenin is father of three children and lives and writes in London. OOOOOOMayenin loves and lives poetry which is the voice of his soul. As an author Mayenin's consciousness is deeply rooted in the philosophical conviction that he is morally obliged to continue to promote, foster and discharge his social and moral responsibilities towards the humanion he feels so deeply a part of. He believes himself to be a citizen of the mother universe and his works call humanity to a universal humanion of humankind in the cosmosian theatre of life in this beautiful infinite universe. He opposes any other forms of identities in favour of the Humanion of humankind on this Blue Planet. OOOOOO Relevant Websites: OOOOOO http://www.munayemmayenin.co.uk OOOOOO OOOOOO http://stores.lulu.com/munayemmayenin OOOOOO OOOOOO http://www.imsoniumbooks.wordpress.com OOOOOOO OOOOOO http://www.poetsletter.com OOOOOO OOOOOO http://www.londonpoetryfestival.com OOOOOO OOOOOO http://www.myspace.com/munayemmayenin OOOOOO OOOOOO http://uk.youtube.com/MunayemMayenin OOOOOO OOOOOO http://mmayenin.wordpress.com OOOOOO OOOOOO http://www.bebo.com/MunayemM OOOOOO OOOOOO http://en.netlog.com/mayeninmuna OOOOOO

Inspiration

I promise I shall come back and write about this for you, soon, very soon. But I leave you the following for you, which is an email that I sent to a young writer recently:=================================================== “To demonstrate what I am going say I shall not use any punctuation in this email making you The Leader to decide on how this text should punctuate itself that is suitable for it in your judgement The snobs at Universities that teach creative writing courses misguiding and breaking young writers about the very thing they ought not forget or lose which is the sense of wonder the sense of beautiful inquisitiveness of a child Since as soon as that eternal child dies away inside a human being the Artist inside her dies with the child I had once spent a whole morning on the Southbank listening out for people's conversations in order to write a poem titled A Fogheld Oak Tree Poem where I only heard a little girl and a little boy using some words to the effect to show me or make me feel that life was still a wonder-wounded thing The adults' language was mostly dead full of dry dread and dreadfulness and only the boy said pointing at the River Look And the little girl sitting next to him offering him some of her sandwich said Won't you have some of mine or something to that effect There is nothing wrong in using exclamation marks if one feels one needs to since one has felt that excitement In fact there is everything wrong in trying to make things appear "sophisticated" so that there is nothing left of life in the piece of the writing that is worth experiencing Why on earth call it creative writing when some people have taken one's brain out of one's head and placed in there instead a broken and dreadful circuit of their own that does not work In fact I do not find any point of punctuations at all with regards to creative writing I am working at the moment with a novel that has no punctuation marks whatsoever used in it and I hear you ask But why This is why I work my sweat and blood out to bring life to the foyer I swim through ocean of poison and seek and search and find wondrous pearls for the Reader and I expect her to work as heard if not harder I want her to work hard so to be able to live the most of her life I want her to be able to be an Active Reader giving her the whole of life without punctuations making her the director to impose the punctuation for herself to claim the story and life for herself and in this I approach The Reader who in my judgement and faith possesses a mind of her own and that she has brain that has intelligence inside her head that the media and the snobs do not think for her as well as the fact that I have the faith that she is capable of doing this herself and does not need us to chew everything for her so that she is robbed off the opportunity to actually experience the joy of chewing or eating or drinking I am tired of hearing about these snobs and the craps they are coming up with The Market god has taken on and broken successfully our universities that now produce human potatoes and carrots in the right size and shape to fit in the Tesco tills or Barclays' counters or this or that The same Market god is killing creative writing and particularly poetry It has broken most creative branches including music only poetry put has up the longest resistance against this and still trying and must must must continue to do so I do not want to see vegetable writers or poets or artists I would rather have writers who eat hunger and sleep thirst and breathe rough of life so that they come up with something that no one has ever come up with before I do not want to see illiterate writers or poets who do not read and have no clues of life or living but actually just vomiting out trained garbage If that does not happen I am sorry I am not at all interested in whatever it is that they are coming up with No one can and shall be able to train out a Socrates or Einstein or Samuel Taylor Coleridge or William Shakespeare or Becket or Dostoyevsky or Hughes or Keats or Neruda or Pasternak or Tolstoy And even if they try I shall have nothing to do with their crimes”==================================================================== Thank you Munayem Mayenin// At Laranska// London