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In today’s poetry news round-up we take a look at the story behind “Bosom Pals” a collection of poetry put together by breast cancer survivors from which all profits will be going to charity and we reveal the names of some of the contenders for the National Book Awards Poetry Prize Poetry for Breast Cancer Today at the University Hospital Galway a book of ...
John Steven McGroarty was an American poet, journalist, lawyer and politician who served two terms as a Democratic Congressman. He was born on the 20th August 1862 in a small settlement called Foster Township, Pennsylvania, the youngest of a large family of twelve children. His parents were Irish immigrants and it was unlikely that there would have been the money to send him ...
John Todhunter was an Irish poet, playwright and academic. He served as a Professor of English Literature for a short time at Alexandra College in Dublin. He was a prolific writer and at least seven collections of poetry bear his name, along with a number of dramatic productions. He also translated works of German literature into English. He was born on the 30th ...
Today on My Poetic Side we bring you a story about plagiarism and examine a few of the similarities between the poems that led to this potential discovery that has left many poets shocked. Poet Accused of Plagiarizing Ira Lightman, a British poet and poetry detective has made a discovery that could rock the poetry world. According to his investigations there are a number ...
John Streeter Manifold was a 20th century Australian poet, musicologist, music publisher and literary critic. He came into the world on the 21st April 1915 in the Toorak district of Melbourne, a descendent of the Manifold brothers. They were the first British settlers who moved from Van Diemen’s Land, Tasmania in 1835 to establish a small sheep farming community called Camperdown. His father was ...
Today’s new round up brings you to articles, the first about a priest who has written a poem inspired by the Grenfell Tower fire and the emotions that followed, and the second the unusual story of the poet of the A14. The poetry of the Grenfell Tower priest In the days that followed the terrible fire that raged through the Grenfell Tower block in ...
John Taylor was an English poet of Shakespearian times who became popularly known as "The Water Poet", a nickname that he actually gave himself. This came about because of his profession as a waterman, operating an essential service on the rivers of London and Oxford at different times. He was born on the 24th August 1578 in Gloucester, a city on the banks of the ...
The “Banksy” of Poetry It would seem that Mark Jones, aka the “Banksy of Poetry has struck again, and this time much further south than normal. A Penzance hairdresser was the bemused recipient of his latest poem. Jones has been sending verse in the post to hairdressers all over the UK for around six years now, using his trademark template and writing his poetry ...
John Townsend Trowbridge was an American poet, novelist and newspaper man who had strong abolitionist views, some of which almost got the paper that he was writing for closed down. His literary output included a number of titles written under the pseudonym Paul Creyton. He was born on the 18th September 1827 in a little log cabin that his father had built in Ogden, ...
The final news round-up of the week brings us an article about the Griffin Poetry Prize Judges before taking us to the now restored childhood home of Hedd Wyn. We finish with a look at the poetry that has emerged from the people who lived through Hurricane Harvey. 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize Judges are Named The Griffin Poetry Prize, which was founded in 2000 ...
