The “Rowy” event of the Arabic Poetry Academy held at Taif University under the umbrella of the Ministry of Culture and with the support of the Literature, Publishing and Translation Authority witnessed a dialogue session moderated by Dr. Sami Al-Ajlan entitled: “Modern Arabic Poetry is a dialectic of the absent and the consumer.”
In it, Dr. Saad Al-Bazai spoke about the dilemma of saying in modern Arabic poetry, and he said: “Language is the most important and common human expressive tool, and then it is most likely to fall into the trap of consumption. Without language, the daily life of a person is not correct, as it is his first and most important way of communication.”
And he continued his talk about the poetry crisis: “The poet comes in a very difficult attempt to purify the language from the impurities of repetition and clean it from the dust of consumption, trying to ascend with that heap of familiar words and sentences to perceptions of significance and beauty.”
Concerning what the contemporary poetic experience needs, Dr. Hatem Al-Zahrani says: “It needs to break away from recycling the artistic consumer, discover the hidden and achieve it, and enter boldly into a creative area that constitutes a medium for exploration and innovation.”
He added, "The poem, which provides an aesthetic, dialogic experience between multiple spaces, will fulfill the condition of poetry that is most capable of exploiting the consumer in a creative way, discovering the poetic hidden and transferring it to a state of creative verification."
Okaz (Taif) @okazonlin