News at Eleven: It was under these conditions that modern Kurdish

poetry emerged. The first notable modern poet was Nûrî Sheikh Sâlih (1905-1958), who also brought the ideas of modernism to literary criticism. Because of increasing political involvement, however, Nûrî Sheikh Sâlih never really reached the influential and important position within Kurdish literature which he otherwise certainly would have attained.

The poet who undoubtedly brought about a revolution in Kurdish poetry, was Goran (1904-1962), also called the father of Kurdish modernism. At this time Kurdish poetry was loaded with hundreds of years of foreign heritage, especially Arabic. Goran cleared his poetry of this influence and gave it a form, rhythm, language and content which were based on Kurdish reality and Kurdish culture, nature and folkloric traditions.

from The Kurdish Globe: Classical and Modern Kurdish Poetry--Part III
also The Kurdish Globe: Classical and Modern Kurdish Poetry--Part I
also The Kurdish Globe: Classical and Modern Kurdish Poetry--Part II

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