We keep you updated on the world of poetry with our news roundups.
Mathilde Blind was a 19th century English poet, although her place of birth was actually Germany. At a time when it was rare for women to become famous writers she overcame long-established male prejudices and emulated the likes of Katharine Tynan and Amy Levy who had similar success. A movement growing ever popular at the time was called “New Woman” and Blind ...
Another day and another poetry news round up. Today we look the poet who is shortly to be the subject of a film, the Poetry Aloud Competition and the founder of the Dead Poets of America Society who is pondering his own immortality and designing a gravestone inspired by the poets graves he has visitied. Poet Shel Silverstein to be Subject of Film The ...
Mather Byles was an 18th century American poet and Puritan minister who lost his church status following the American Revolution because he supported the Loyalists rather than the victorious Patriots side. His parishioners objected to his political leanings and saw to it that he lost his ministry. He was born on the 26th March 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, the grandson and nephew of two ...
Another news round-up and today we bring you the story of a poet who was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, the controversy over the poet on an Israeli banknote and finally the 2017 winner of the Ledbury Poetry Competition. Japanese Order of the Rising Sun Awarded to Poet One of the most distinguished national decorations in Japan has recently been awarded ...
Masaoka Shiki was a Japanese poet and literary critic who lived during his country’s Meiji period which ran from 1868 to 1912. He was one of the earlier exponents of the modern version of haiku poetry and is considered, by some students of the art, to be one of the four great haiku masters. He also specialised in the short-form version ...
As December gets underway we begin another week with a round-up of poetry news. Today we offer you stories about poetry quoted by top Chinese Military, the John F. Kennedy Centennial Poetry Contest and the poem for Harry and his Fiancée. Poetry Used to Mock Australian Concerns When it comes to communications relating to military matters, poetry is not a form of communication that spring readily to mind, yet that is exactly ...
Lesbia Harford was an Australian poet and political activist. She was also the author of a single novel called The Invaluable Mystery, but this was not published until 1987 which was sixty years after her death. She was born Lesbia Venner Keogh on the 9th April 1891 in the Victorian town of Brighton which is a suburb of Melbourne. Her father was a struggling ...
We have reached the end of another week here at My Poetic Side and today’s news roundup brings another poetry prize winner. We also take a brief look at Shane Koyczan and think about the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh on the 50th Anniversary of his death. Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize The 2017 winner of the biennial Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, which is named after ...
Thursday’s poetry round-up takes a look at the poet writing for 16 Days of Activism. We also take a look at what is something of an institution; the Faber and Faber Poetry Diary and finally the self-proclaimed “Poet Laureate of the North Pole”. Poetry for 16 Days of Activism This week, in conjunction with the worldwide observation of 16 Days of Activism, a movement ...
Lesya Ukrainka was one of Ukraine’s best known poets who also wrote plays. She was politically active, especially on feminist issues. She was born Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka on the 25th February 1871 in the Ukrainian town of Novohrad-Volynskyi. Her mother was a writer who used the pseudonym Olena Pchilka to write poetry and short stories aimed at children and it seems likely that she ...
