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{{Further|Goan literature|List of fiction writers from Goa, India}}
[[Goa]] is currently India's smallest state on the west coast, and its writers have written in many diverse languages. [[Poetry]] is a small and scattered field in the region, and this page makes an attempt to acknowledge those who have contributed to the field. It includes those listed below who have contributed to poetry in and from [[Goa]], as well as those writing poetry in [[Goa]]. Poetry related to Goa (specially by those from the region) is known to have been written in [[Konkani]] (in the officially-acknkowledged [[Devanagari]] and the popularly-used [[Roman alphabet|Roman]] scripts, apart from others), in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[English language|English]] and [[Marathi language|Marathi]], apart from other regional, national and international languages to a lesser extent.

==Some prominent names from the past==

[[Jonathan Gil Harris]], [[Professor]] of [[English language|English]], [[Ashoka University]] and a Ph.D. ([[University of Sussex]]), talks about Father [[Thomas Stephens (Jesuit)|Thomas Stephens]], an [[English people|English]] [[Jesuit]], who not only would "spend his entire life in [[Goa]], he also wrote the first [[Konkani]] [[grammar]] book and an epic 11,000-line [[Marathi language|Marathi]] poem, now regarded as a classic."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Harris|first1=Jonathan Gil|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/part-iii-the-marathi-poet-of-goa/story-ALdzAuBgHdUHpGfJzAdyuM.html|website=hindustantimes.com|publisher=The Hindustan Times|title=Part III: The Marathi Poet of Goa|accessdate=28 February 2017}}</ref>

[[Eunice de Souza]], herself a prominent poet in English, writes:<ref>{{cite web|last1=Desouza|first1=Eunice|title=Celebrating Goa|url=http://www.tambdimati.com/article/celebrating-goa/|website=Tambdi Maati|accessdate=28 February 2017}}</ref> "[[Joseph Furtado]], who wrote in [[English language|English]] and in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] was one of the first poets to use what we now call “[[Indian English]].” “Fortune teller, memsahib!/Tell fortune very well…/” There’s the great modernist, [[Francis Newton Souza|F N Souza]]. And we are probably the only people in the world to write an ode to sorpotel! In addition, poets such as the late [[Santan Rodrigues]], [[Melanie Silgardo]], and [[Raul da Gama Rose]] played an important role in poetry in [[English language|English]] in the 1970s. They started a poets’ cooperative named [[Newground]] and published some volumes of poetry. Melanie, who has been living in [[London]] for some years recently co-edited with me an anthology called [[These My Words]], [[The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry]] which includes translations of poems in all [[Languages of India|Indian languages]], and poems in English."

Augusto Pinto, reviewer, writes of Joseph "Furtado, who passed away in 1947 at the age of 75, was one of the finest Indian English poets of his time" in a detailed article in the ''[[Himal Southasian|Himal]]'' magazine, published from [[Kathmandu]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pinto|first1=Augusto|title=The Goan fiddler|url=http://old.himalmag.com/component/content/article/533-the-goan-fiddler.html|website=Himal|publisher=Himal SouthAsia|accessdate=28 February 2017}}</ref>

==Comments on poetry in and from Goa==

Peter Nazareth, the editor of the first anthology in English of Goan writing, comments:<ref>Pivoting on the point of return: modern Goan literature Nazareth, Peter. Goa,1556 and Broadway Book Centre, Panjim 2010</ref> "I found some of the literature very strange, particularly poetry written before the fifties. The subjects seemed hopelessly romantic, the treatment archaic, the psyche concerned with the irrelevant. Was it just because I was out of touch? Or was it that being involved with the exciting, creative, literature of a whole continent, Africa, my responses were sound: that Goan writers were trapped in a deep, airless well?"

''Goa Today'', the monthly magazine from the region, has an article<ref>Mahajan, Prabha. "Goan Poets in English'." Panjim: Goa Today, Goa (1983).</ref> on Goan poets in English.

==Konkani (Devanagari)==
* [[Balakrishna Bhagwant Borkar|Bakibab Borkar]]
* [[R. V. Pandit|RV Pandit]]
* [[Uday Bhembre]]<ref>Aguiar, John. [http://johnaguiarspoetry.blogspot.in/2011/05/some-goan-konkani-poets.html''Some Goan Konkani Poets'']. Blog, 2011</ref>
* Veni [[Madhav Borkar]]
* [[Ramesh Veluskar]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Noronha|first1=Frederick (Interviewer)|title=Ramesh Veluskar, a poet from Goa|url=https://archive.org/details/RameshVeluskarAPoetFromGoa|website=Archive.Org|publisher=Internet Archive|accessdate=28 February 2017}}</ref>
* [[Shashikant Punaji]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFVzfluvVqk|title=The changing face of the Goa village|first=|last=Frederick FN Noronha|date=15 October 2008|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&gl=IN&v=q9vhcme7YHQ&hl=en-GB|title=Oh, the rains are here|first=|last=Frederick FN Noronha|date=15 October 2008|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref>
* [[John Aguiar]]

==Konkani (Roman script)==

* [[Fr. Vasco do Rego SJ]], known for his flawless metre and rhyme and beauty of language.
* [[Walter Menezes]]<ref>http://museindia.com/focuscontent.asp?issid=50&id=4300</ref>

==English==
* [[Joseph Furtado]]
* [[Dom Moraes]]
* [[Armando Menezes]]
* [[Leslie de Noronha]]
* [[Santan Rodrigues]]
* [[Manuel C. Rodrigues (poet and writer from Goa)|Manuel Rodrigues]]
* [[Eunice De Souza]]
* [[Innocent Sousa]]
* Antonio Gomes<ref>{{cite web|last1=Antao|first1=Ben|title=Mirrored reflections reviewed by Ben Antão|url=http://www.tambdimati.com/article/mirrored-reflections/|website=Tambdi Mati|accessdate=1 March 2017}}</ref>
* [[Jerry Pinto]]
* [[Manohar Shetty]]
* [[Tony Fernandes]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fernandes|first1=Tony|title=GOA - Memories of My Homeland - Poems and Short Stories by Tony Fernandes|url=http://tonferns.blogspot.in/2010/05/blog-post_26.html|website=tonferns.blogspot.com}}</ref>
* [[Margaret Mascarenhas]]
* [[António Mascarenhas (writer)|António Mascarenhas]]
* [[Frederika Menezes]]
* [[Rochelle Potkar]]
* [[Gerson da Cunha]]
* Mark Rocha<ref>{{cite web|last1=Machado|first1=Christine|title=Notes On Love by Christine Machado|url=https://www.navhindtimes.in/2020/12/26/magazines/bnc/notes-on-love|website=Navhind Times|accessdate=26 Dec 2020}}</ref>

==Marathi==
* [[Vishnu Wagh]]

==Portuguese==

* [[Nascimento Mendonça]] (1884–1927) <ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiveofgoanwritinginportuguese.blogspot.com/2013/05/nascimento-mendonca-por-de-sol.html|title=Archive of Goan Writing in Portuguese: Nascimento Mendonça - Pôr-de-Sol (republished 1963)|first=Paul|last=Castro|date=21 May 2013|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiveofgoanwritinginportuguese.blogspot.com/2011/11/nascimento-mendonca-cantico-em-louvor.html|title=Archive of Goan Writing in Portuguese: Nascimento Mendonça - Cântico em Louvor da Monção (1966)|first=Paul|last=Castro|date=7 November 2011|publisher=}}</ref>
* [[Orlando da Costa]]
* [[Paulino Dias]] (1874–1919)
* [[Adeodato Barreto|Adeodato Barreto (1905-1937)]]
* [[Floriano Barreto]] (1877–1905)
* Prof. [[Laxmanrao Sardessai]]
* [[Ananta Rau Sar Dessai]]
* [[Judit Beatriz de Souza]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiveofgoanwritinginportuguese.blogspot.com/2012/07/judit-beatriz-de-souza-gota-de-agua.html|title=Archive of Goan Writing in Portuguese: Judit Beatriz de Souza - Gota de Água (1953)|first=Paul|last=Castro|date=16 July 2012|publisher=}}</ref>(1933–2011)
* [[Vimala Devi|Vimala Devi (1936)]]
* [[Jose Filipe Neri Soares Rebelo]]
* [[Telo Mascarenhas]]
* Oscar Monteiro<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oscarmonteiro-autor.blogspot.com/2008/04/lanamento-do-livro-nas-asas-da-palavra.html|title=Óscar Monteiro - Autor: Lançamento do livro "Nas Asas da Palavra"|first=Óscar|last=Monteiro-autor|date=10 April 2008|publisher=}}</ref><ref>http://www.angelfire.com/pop2/portuguese/reviews.html</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.venuscreations.ca/viewCarlosMorgadinho_detalhe.asp?id=63|title=Venus Creations|website=www.venuscreations.ca}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gremioliterario.ca/|title=Gremio Literario de Lingua Portuguesa|website=www.gremioliterario.ca}}</ref>

==External links==

===General===
* [http://museindia.com/focus.asp?id=50 Muse India Focus - Goan Literature. 2013.]
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/goa-book-club/qpLkx84-ZfU Discussion on this page, via the Goa Book Club]
* [http://www.goaartlitfest.com/about.php Goa Art and Literature Festival, covers poetry too]
* [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006269238 Catalog Record: Goan poetry -- an anthology of verse by living Goan poets. Hathi Trust Digital Library]
* [https://books.google.com/books/about/Goan_Poetry.html?id=-5dzAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y Goan Poetry: An Anthology of Verse by Living Goan Poets]
* [https://www.eventshigh.com/detail/mumbai/f03346375a3c557f239e3dbc1337d624-slam-poetry-retreat-in-goa Slam poetry retreat in Goa]
* [http://funnel.thegoaproject.com/2015/503-word-up-a-spoken-word-poetry-workshop Word Up, the interaction of poetry and activism, at The Goa Project]
* [http://www.bv.fapesp.br/en/bolsas/163782/languages-and-poetry-in-goa-the-archive-of-the-british-librar/ Languages and poetry in Goa]
* [https://sites.google.com/site/goapoetry/poets-of-goa Poets of Goa]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010241/http://www.museindia.com/focuscontent.asp?issid=50&id=4273 A word about Goan poetry, Ben Antao]
* [http://goastreets.com/poem-never-ends/ Poet Edwin Thumboo (Singapore), speaks in Goa]
* [https://plus.google.com/+PruthaGoa/posts/ieoDCE2aFy3 Poetry Spoken With A Cause]

===English===
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=L21oPitEqIUC&pg=PA349&lpg=PA349&dq=poetry+in+goa&source=bl&ots=8VVmhqyryA&sig=b6mv2IT1gknMz7_2ApzdXes0HDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv9vjBpLLSAhWKWbwKHXcYByM4FBDoAQhHMAg#v=onepage&q=poetry%20in%20goa&f=false Anglophone poetry in colonial India (Joseph Furtado)]
* [http://old.himalmag.com/component/content/article/533-the-goan-fiddler.html The Goan Fiddler, by Augusto Pinto, Himal, 2009]
* [https://sites.google.com/site/goapoetry/poets-of-goa Poets of Goa]
* [https://www.navhindtimes.in/2020/12/26/magazines/bnc/notes-on-love Notes on Love]

===Konkani===
* [https://archive.org/details/KonkaniPoetryOfGoa-1961-2005-AReview Konkani Poetry of Goa (1961-2005), a review]
* [http://libcat.unigoa.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=su:konkani%20poetry Konkani poetry section of Goa University]
* [https://www.scribd.com/doc/44611122/A-Review-of-Konkani-Poetry-After-Goa-s-Liberation#scribd A Review of Konkani Poetry After Goa's Liberation - Scribd]
* [https://archive.org/details/UgtemMolobAKonkaniPoetsMeetInGoa Ugtem Molob, a Konkani Poets' Meet in Goa, audio recording]
* [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/manoharrai-sardessai-the-crown-prince-of-konkani-poetry/articleshow/56546869.cms Manoharrai Sardessai, the Crown Prince of Konkani Poetry]
* [http://www.veenapatwardhan.com/greatgoansbakibabborkar19101984.html Bakibab Borkar, by Veena Patwardhan]
* [http://johnaguiarspoetry.blogspot.in/2011/05/some-goan-konkani-poets.html Some Goan Konkani Poets, John Aguiar's blog]

===Marathi===
* [http://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/part-iii-the-marathi-poet-of-goa/story-ALdzAuBgHdUHpGfJzAdyuM.html The Marathi poet of Goa]
* [https://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg30975.html Feminist Marathi poetry of Vishnu Wagh]

===Portuguese===
* [http://www.india-seminar.com/2012/630/630_everton_v._machado.htm What happened to Indian literature in Portuguese?]
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=fWlMV5lVSpYC&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=poetry+in+goa&source=bl&ots=_S1XI5Tndq&sig=-dcRRClEIWhSD4NNs8Hykdl8zt0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7sbqipLLSAhVIxLwKHbNpCSE4ChDoAQhiMAk#v=onepage&q=poetry%20in%20goa&f=false Desassossego in Luso-Indian Goan Poetry (George V Coelho)]

===Individual poets, etc===
* [http://www.dailyo.in/arts/poetry-alcohol-addiction-goa-booze-feni-whiskey-mumbai-bars/story/1/10992.html A poet remembers: Drinking in Goa and why alcohol is a false god]
* [http://www.poemhunter.com/dom-moraes/ Dom Moraes]
* [http://tonferns.blogspot.in/2010/05/blog-post_26.html Goa, Poems and Short Stories by Tony Fernandes]
* [http://www.digitalgoa.com/sanjivverenkar Sanjiv Verenkar (poet)]
* [http://hellopoetry.com/words/57760/goa/poems/ HelloPoetry.com Goa poems]
* [https://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/short/goa Short Goa poems]
* [https://www.tripadvisor.in/ShowTopic-g297604-i9241-k2387497-A_Goan_poem-Goa.html A Goa poem, tripadvisor]
* [http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/spot/poem-goa/ Poem: Goa by Sadhguru]
* [https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/goa/ Goa poem, by Pal Eternity]
* [http://proudtobeagoan.blogspot.in/2010/11/poem-about-goa.html A poem about Goa]
* [http://goastreets.com/beach-poems/ Beach poems, Salil Chaturvedi]
* [https://plus.google.com/112058822612897083689/posts/iRgypKYEXjP Luminous poetry' with Goa Governor]
* [http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/A-medley-of-poetry-to-charm-Goa/article14467835.ece A medley of poetry to charm Goa]
* [http://markrocha.net Blog of Goan poet Mark Rocha]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Lists of people from Goa]]
[[Category:Poets from Goa]]
[[Category:Lists of Indian poets]]

Poets in (and from) Goa - Revision history

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