This week at My Poetic Side we begin with a story that once again combines poetry and politics, with an article about Boris Johnson, we also look at a schools poetry programme inspired by the landscape that inspired Seamus Heaney and we finish with the 13 year old winner of the Betjeman poetry prize. Boris Puts His Foot in it! Footage aired this weekend ...
Joseph Johnston Lee was a Scottish poet who wrote about the First World War but, curiously, has been largely ignored amongst others of that generation. For this reason he is often referred to as Scotland's “Forgotten' War Poet". Besides this he was also an artist, a playwright and journalist. He was born sometime during the year 1876 in the north eastern city of Dundee, ...
Our final news round-up of the week brings you a denied entry visa, a look at poetry on Twitter and a Limerick bid for the European City of Culture. South African Poet Denied Entry to the UK Athol Williams, an acclaimed South African poet and author was due to return to his studies at the University of Oxford on Wednesday but instead was denied ...
Today at My Poetic Side we dedicate our news round up to National Poetry Day, here is just a taste of the many things that are going on all over the country. Appeal Launched to Save Rare Language Poetry The National Poetry Library has kicked off National Poetry Day with the launch of a project that it hopes will help save works of poetry ...
John Sandes was an Irish-born Australian poet, novelist and journalist. He was born on the 26th February 1863 in the southern Irish city of Cork, the son of a priest. At the age of nine the family moved to England and Sandes was educated at the King's College School, London before going up to Magdalen College, Oxford where he gained a Bachelors’ degree in ...
Today on My Poetic Side we bring you the lost essay of a poet, news of the release of Langzi and a poetry competition from Divine Chocolate. The Lost Essay of George Moses Horton A previously unknown essay, written by Horton, has been located in the archives at the New York Public Library. The 500-word essay, with its sermon like quality is titled “Individual ...
Joseph Skipsey was a prolific English poet, song writer and coal miner who wrote many of his poems about the north eastern area in which he was born, lived and worked. His most famous piece of work was called The Hartley Calamity which was a poem to commemorate the terrible disaster at Hartley Colliery of 1862 where over two hundred men had died ...
Today at My Poetic Side our roundup brings you stories of literary treasure that is in danger of being split up, and two very different poetry festivals that will be taking place at the beginning of October. Yeats Family Collection in Danger of Removed from Ireland A collection of more than 200 lots that illustrate the literary and artistic life on the best know ...
Josephine Preston Peabody was a US poet, English teacher and dramatist. Much of her work displayed her deep social awareness as well as her interest in spiritual, ethereal subjects. She came into the world on the 30th May 1874 and lived in the Brooklyn district of New York up to the age of ten. She was lucky enough to have parents who encouraged her ...
We start this week’s poetry round up with articles about a Sylvia Plath letter, the new poet-in-residence at Radio 4 and we start the run up to National Poetry Day which falls on 28th September. Contents of New Sylvia Plath Letter Revealed During her lifetime Sylvia Plath, wrote many letters and next week a new volume titled “The Letters of Sylvia Plath” is ...
