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Thailand… to get poetic about…

By Lung Jan
Posted in Background, Culture, Poetry
Tags: Anchalee Vivatanachai, Angarn Kalayanapong, Chit Phumisak, poet, poem, Paiwarin Khao Ngam, Saksiri Meesomsueb, Sunthorn Phu

21 August 2024

I have found over the years that we Farang are generally not very familiar with the literature, let alone the poetry of our host country. Expats who want to integrate generally have a more thorough knowledge of, say, the local range of food, drink or women than of what is generally described as 'higher' culture.

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The ancestors of radical and revolutionary Thai thinkers

By Tino Kuis
Posted in Background, History
Tags: poet, Tienwan

7 August 2023

We know pretty well the progressive thinkers and the uprisings in Thailand during the last 50-60 years, but what was it like before? What was the source of all those new ideas? Indigenous or foreign? Here is a short and incomplete guide in which Tienwan in particular is put in the spotlight.

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Jit Phumisak, poet, intellectual and revolutionary

By Tino Kuis
Posted in Background
Tags: Communists, poet, Jit Phumisak, Music, Then, writer

June 24, 2022

Jit Phumisak (Thai: จิตร ภูมิศักดิ์, pronounced chit phoe:míesàk, also known as Chit Phumisak) graduated from the Faculty of Art, Chulalongkorn University and soon joined the Communist Party. He was a writer and poet who, like many, fled to the jungle to escape persecution. On May 5, 1966, he was arrested in Ban Nong Kung, near Sakon Nakhorn, and immediately executed.

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