We keep you updated on the world of poetry with our news roundups.
Today in our poetry news round up, we bring together a selection of articles about recent poetry awards. National Book Award for Poetry Shortlist The shortlist for this years National Book Award for Poetry has been announced by the National Book Foundation. On 3rd October, they will be announcing the finalists in all of the categories of the awards....
We begin the week with a look at a new edition of a much-loved poetry collection, a plaque to honour a poet, and the poet laureate's involvement in a Christmas carol competition. Photographs Collected for New Edition of Poetry Collection Landscape photographer John Hayward has been commissioned by Merlin Unwin Books to create a collection of photographs that will be ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we take a look at a new anthology of poetry and the 30th anniversary of the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation. New Anthology of Poetry to be Published by Ada Limon A new book which has been edited by Ada Limon, the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States and published in association with ...
We begin the week with a look at the latest award for the poet Rita Dove and the Japanese Scroll that has become the most recent addition to the Hamilton Library. Honorary National Book Award Medal for Lifetime Achievement for Rita Dove The National Book Foundation, which is a non-profit organization, has announced that this year, the winner of their ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we bring you news about the Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, the Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows and the shortlist for the Laurel Prize. Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards The seventh annual Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, which celebrates young writers from Illinois, has announced the 2023 winners....
Today, in our poetry news round-up, we look at the plans for a new Seamus Heaney Centre and the schedule for the annual Patrick Kavanagh Festival. New Seamus Heaney Centre Announced by Queen’s University Close to the Lanyon Building, which is part of the main campus, the space will be located at the listed buildings that are on Mount Charles ...
On today's poetry news round-up, we take a look at the winner of the 2023 Sillerman First Book Prize and also one of the shortlisted poets for this year’s Poetry Fellowships. Winner of 2023 Sillerman First Book Prize Announced The poet Abu Bakr Sadiq is the winner of 2023's Sillerman First Book Prize. He was awarded the prize for “Leaked ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we look at the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, reinvented using AI, the new Oxford ProAugustfessor of Poetry Canon and the 35th Annual Cowboy Poetry Festival. Ginsberg Poetry Given New Life Using AI The estate of Allen Ginsberg, the countercultural icon and acclaimed American poet, will be bringing his poetry to life thanks ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we look at the exhibition that remembers a Georgian poet and the inclusion of Alfred Lord Tennyson on a list of notable LGBT figures. Exhibition to Remember Georgian Poet A new exhibition has opened up in the Georgian capital, which commemorates the poet Paolo Iashvili, a prolific writer who, during the Stalinist purge, took his ...
We begin the week with a look at the winner of the inaugural Yeats Poetry Prize, the 2023 Poet Laureate Fellows in America and the Tweet mistakenly attributed to a deceased poet. Winner of the Inaugural Yeats Poetry Prize Announced Sara Berkley has been named as the winner of the inaugural Yeats Poetry Prize for “The Last Cold Day”. The ...
