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Ask twenty friends who their favorite poet is and you’re certain to get twenty different answers. William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost roll off the tongue easily – the greats, the classics. But ask Amazon who their customers’ favorite poets are and you’ll get an entirely different set of answers. Today we’re exploring seven of Amazon’s best-selling poets and ...
The Weekly Standard, an American political opinion magazine, has published their take on America’s obsession with Russia, as imagined by Russian writer and poet Dmitry Bykov.The none too certain, shaky relationship between the United States of America and Russia is frequently in the news of late owing largely to the investigation centred around whether President Donald Trump did or did not receive ...
The hugging poet, John Horder, has sadly passed away at the age of 80. John’s favourite saying, Meher Baba’s maxim “don’t worry, be happy,” couldn’t sum him up better. In fact, it was his interest in the teachings of Baba, the Indian mystic, which led to his association as the hugging poet. It came about as Horder referred to Meher Bab as ...
The Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup is only a few weeks away. The 15th edition of the popular poetry competition is to be held in the first weekend of September, with last year’s winner, Robin Archbold, returning to judge the competition. You can view his winning performance here. Each poet will have eight minutes to perform one poem or a collection of ...
James Montgomery was a Scottish-born poet and hymnodist who spent much of his life, and is widely commemorated in, the English county of Yorkshire. He had deeply philanthropic views on the abolition of slavery and of the practice of forcing children into dangerous jobs such as sweeping chimneys. He was born on the 4th November 1771 in Ayrshire which lies in the south western ...
James Joseph Sylvester FRS was primarily a renowned 19th century English mathematician, scientist and academic but it is also on record that one of his lifetime passions was poetry. Many of his published papers on mathematical matters contain poetic quotes and he spent a great deal of time both reading and translating classical pieces written in Latin and Greek, along with poetry ...
James Jeffrey Roche was an Irish-born American poet. Towards the end of his life he served his government in the diplomatic service as American consul to Switzerland. In his earlier days, living in Boston, he earned a living as a journalist. He was born on the 31st May 1847 in Mountmellick, in Queen"s County. The family emigrated to Canada shortly afterwards and young James grew ...
With the global nature of poetry continually changing, here we have 3 news stories from across the globe: Ugandan poet shortlisted for award It is often thought that some of the greatest poetry is borne from great suffering, and it seems that the old adage is true for at least one poet, Nick Makoha, who has used his experience of the horrific nature of ...
In our last news round-up of the week we bring you a poetry collection from a Belarussian poet, a commemorative stamp for an Irish poet and a vibrant Malawian poet who is celebrating 6 years of poetry in the public eye. New Poetry Collection for Belarussian Professor Valzhyna Mort, a Belarussian poet who currently lives in the USA has just released her new book ...
James Lionel Michael was a 19th century, English-born Australian poet and lawyer. He was born some time during October 1824 in London, the son of a solicitor. It seems that he had little interest in education despite the professional status of his father and he left school at the age of 15. His parents then made sure that he received private tuition and he ...
