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Splinters of a Miage Dawn, Anthology of Migrant Poetry of South Africa
Splinters of a Miage Dawn, Anthology of Migrant Poetry of South Africa, short listed for the prestigious National Institute of Humanities and Social...
Migrant tales earn top book prize for EL doctor
Daily Dispatch - April 11, 2016 East London doctor, Amitabh Mitra, who doubles as a published poet, had a book shortlisted for the recent inaugural...
Doctor’s passion keeps the arts alive
By DAVID MACGREGOR on June 3 in the Daily Dispatch When he is not dealing with the daily trauma and heartache as head of accident and emergency at...
Symposium and Hippocrates Award for Poetry and Medicine
Exhibiting as Posters, my Poetry/Art titled: Poems from Makiwane in London on Saturday 12th May 2012 at the Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road
Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Poetry Workshop, conducted by Dr. Amitabh Mitra
I was amazed by the impromptu poetry creation and recitation by scholars from Selborne and Clarendon School who have received the...
EL Doctor showcases his poetic side
Daily Dispatch - Grahamstown - 8 July 2011
Book Giveaway! Poems for Haiti, A South African Anthology
Signed copies of the book, Poems for Haiti would be given away at East London. Read more...
Daily Dispatch, South Africa’s premier news daily talks on Poems for Haiti
Once again, The Daily Dispatch, South Africa’s premier news daily talks fervently on the anthology, Poems for Haiti. With a forward by...
A little more about the book
Mdantsane Breathing - Celebrating Mdantsane Mdantsane Breathing is my latest book, a coffee table hard cover lavishly illustrated poetry book which...
Journey through Mdantsane
FOR the past two decades or so, Indian-born poet, artist and medical doctor Amitabh Mitra has had an intimate relationship with the people of...
A Slow Train to Gwalior Launched
A Hardcover Landscape book with a Jacket. this unique book along with poems and art has the comment of well known Bollywood Filmmaker and Poet,...
Listen to this EL gem for Arts Fest!
Every year, artists, musicians and poets from East London contribute generously to the Grahamstown Arts Festival - and this year is no exception....
EL medical officer is an artist and a poet
HE MAY be a qualified trauma specialist, but Dr Amitabh Mitra is also a dab hand with a paint brush, and poetry is second nature to him. When...
Mitra, doctor of poetry
POST - May 6-10 2009 MEDICAL doctor, poet and artist, Dr Amitabh Mitra, has a network of poets showcasing their best writing to hundreds of up and...
Inyathi Journal trumpets its success
THE success of the first issue of the Inyathi Journal has encouraged poet and publisher Amitabh Mitra to bring out the second issue. Inyathi Journal...
Inyathi Arts Journal Launch
VENUE: ANN BRYANT ART GALLERY DATE: WEDNESDAY 27 AUGUST 2008 TIME: 6:30 p.m. Poets Printery Publishing in association with the Ann Bryant Art...
The Doctor who Indulges in Paint and Poems
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Inyathi, Hudson View, Poetry of South Africa in Dubai and New Delhi
The Inyathi, a journal on arts found its way to the homes and hearts of artists and art lovers. A thousand copies, reprinted a number of times...
Love Poetry Rendezvous and Poetry Art Exhibition, 29 April 2008, Durban
April was a great month and the 29 was the greatest day. I was looking forward to meeting the greatest of Durban Poets who had assembled at the...
First art journal for Eastern Cape
THE Eastern Cape's first academic journal on the arts was launched at the Ann Bryant Art Gallery in East London on Friday, 9 November. Known as...
A Poignant Journey
A medical doctor at a busy provincial hospital who finds time to write poetry, right here in East London? Who would have thought? Lisa Andrews...
Billy Nel at Launch of Hudson View
The Hon. Minister of Finance, Mr. Billy Nel, unveiled Amitabh's Art Exhibition at the Ann Bryant Art Gallery, East London, on the 23...
Any style but painting, at Ann Bryant Gallery
IT'S an exhibition with a difference at the East London Ann Bryant Art Gallery. The Anything but Painting exhibit opened at the East London...
Earthworks exhibition at Ann Bryant Art Gallery
SOME of the best local and international artwork is on show at the East London Ann Bryant Art Gallery. The two exhibitions that opened on Thursday...
Indian poet exhibits unusual works
AN UNUSUAL exhibition is on at the Ann Bryant Gallery in East London, where internationally acclaimed poet Amitabh Mitra is taking visitors on a...
Township artists on show at Ann Bryant
An exhibition with a whiff of township art is on at the Ann Bryant Art Gallery in East London. These artworks form part of the East London Fine Art...