Today, our round-up looks at the Southern Fried Poetry Slam"s Louisville tournament, and Rupi Kapur"s attempt to tackle censorship. Southern Fried Poetry Slam This week will see the arrival of a major spoken work tournament, the Southern Fried Poetry Slam, which will be arriving in Louisville. This year will be the 30th annual competition and it will run from today until ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we take a look at the poem for the Queen’s platinum jubilee, the vocalist inspired by W.B Yeats and the death of George Lamming. Queenhood No matter where you are in the world you would have been hard pushed not to have heard at least something about the Platinum Jubilee, and the four days of ...
Today's poetry news roundup looks at the Scot who is off to the World Slam poetry finals, the winner of the Highland Book Prize and a new Arabic poetry award. Poet From the Highlands Qualifies for World Slam Poetry Slam Finals The World Slam Poetry Slam Finals will be taking place in Paris this year with poets from all over ...
Today My Poetic Side looks at the street named after Audre Lorde, the Walt Whitman films and the poetry recording to help save Reading Gaol. Audre Lorde, Warrior Poet, Given Her “Way” 30 years after her death Audre Lorde, who described herself as “Black, lesbian, mother, and warrior poet” has been honoured by the city of New York. The ...
Today's poetry news roundup looks at the Ted Hughes collection acquired by the University of Huddersfield and the Legion D’Honneur awarded to Patti Smith. Major Ted Hughes Collection Acquired by University A rather unique collection of valuable and rare items linked to Ted Hughes, the former poet laureate, has been acquired for the University of Huddersfield. Described by ...
Today"s news round up looks at a new biography about TS Eliot and a portrait of DH Lawrence. TS Eliot’s Life Seems Grim in New Biography “Eliot After The Waste Land” is the second volume of a biography by Robert Crawford that looks at the life of the poet TS Eliot. It moves on from the aspects of ...
In this week"s news, a poem project has been given the People"s Book Prize. We also have details of a commencement address being given by a poet, and the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize. People’s Book Prize Given to Poem Project Christina Gabbitas, who is a children’s author based not far from York, has won an award for a project that ...
We begin the week with a look at the Google Doodle, which was dedicated to a South African poet and the Stately home featuring in a film about the life of Siegfried Sassoon. Google Doodle Dedicated to South African Poet The Google Doodle on 12th May was dedicated to Mazisi Kunene the South African anti-apartheid campaigner and poet. Kunene’s ...
Today in our poetry news round-up we bring you the winners of the UNESCO-Sharjah Arab Culture Prize, the 2022 Pulitzer Poetry Prize for poetry and the poet museum destroyed in Ukraine. Poet and Actress Share UNESCO-Sharjah Arab Culture Prize Later this year Dunya Mikhail, a poet and Helen Al Janabi, an actress will be awarded with the UNESCO-Sharjah Arab Culture ...
We begin the week with a look at the Centenary of “Ulysses” and the planned museum for James Joyce. James Joyce Museum Planned by University of Buffalo The name of James Joyce is well known in literary circles. The famous Irish author penned “Ulysses” which is considered to be one of the 20th century's greatest novels as well as ...
