Podlediad Cysylltiadau Barddonol #5 | Poetry Connections podcast #5

Ddiwedd Hydref fe deithiais i ddinas Kolkata yn nwyrain India ar gyfer ail ran Cysylltiadau Barddonol India-Cymru, prosiect a drefnir gan Lenyddiaeth ar Draws Ffiniau ac a ariennir gan British Council Cymru a Chelfyddydau Rhyngwladol Cymru. Mae'r podlediad isod – y pumed yn y gyfres hon – ynghyd â rhai lluniau a dynnais ar y daith, yn rhoi blas o'r profiadau hynod ddiddorol a ges i a Sampurna Chattarji, un o lenorion Saesneg mwyaf blaenllaw India, yn un o ddinasoedd mwyaf byrlymus y byd.

Mae'r pedwar podlediad arall yn y gyfres – rhai a recordiwyd yn ystod ymweliad Sampurna ag Aberystwyth eleni – ar gael fan hyn:

• Podlediad Cysylltiadau Barddonol #1: Cerflun mewn sw, heriau barddol a bardd mewn dwfe …
• Podleidad Cysylltiadau Barddonol #2: Cantre'r Gwaelod, crôl llenyddol a pheryglon cyfieithu …
• Podlediad Cysylltiadau Barddonol #3: Clera ym Machynlleth, Dafydd ap Gwilym a strydoedd poeth Mwmbái …
• Podlediad Cysylltiadau Barddonol #4: Podlediad a recordiwyd ar faes yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol ym Môn …

At hynny, mae dau o'n cyd-feirdd ar y prosiect, Subhro Bandopadhyay a Nicky Arscott, wedi recordio podlediad Cysylltiadau Barddonol hefyd, ac mae ar gael i'w wrando fan hyn.

1. Cyflwyniad | Intro
2. 2.45 Ar lan llyn Rabindra Sarobar gyda V. Ramaswamy | By Lake Rabindra Sarobar with V. Ramaswamy
3. 5.20 Gweithdy yn y Den yn ThinkArts | Workshop in the Den at ThinkArts
4. 12.50 Digwyddiad a drefnwyd gan British Council Kolkata | Event at British Council Kolkata
5. 18.30 Cerdd ymryson gyntaf Sampurna | Sampurna's first kobir lorai poem
6. 21.25 Cerdd ymryson gyntaf Eurig | Eurig's first kobir lorai poem
7. 23.35 Ar lan afon Hwgli gyda'r ffotograffydd Debarshi Sarkar | A hike along the Hugli river with the photographer Debarshi Sarkar
8. 30.30 Mynwent South Park Street | The South Park Street Cemetary
9. 35.10 Shantiniketan
10. 42.55 Golwg ar yr hyn sy i ddod | A look at what's to come

At the end of October I travelled to Kolkata in east India for the second part of the Poetry Connections India-Wales project, organized by Literature Across Frontiers and supported by British Council Wales and Wales Arts International. In the podcast above – the fifth in this series – Sampurna Chattarji and I discuss our experiences of the bustling, maddening and inspiring city of Kolkata (accompanied by some photos I took on the way).

The four other podcasts in the series – recorded during Sampurna's stay in Aberystwyth earlier this year – are available here:

• Poetry Connections Podcast #1: A statue in a zoo, poetic challenges and a duvet-wrapped poet …
• Poetry Connections Podcast #2: A sunken kingdom, correct pronounciation and problems with the present tense …
• Poetry Connections Podcast #3: A warm welcome in Machynlleth, Dafydd ap Gwilym and the changing face of Mumbai …
• Poetry Connections Podcast #4: This podcast was recorded at the National Eisteddfod on Anglesey …

Two of our fellow-poets on the project, Subhro Bandopadhyay and Nicky Arscott, have also recorded a Poetry Connections podcast, and is available here.