We keep you updated on the world of poetry with our news roundups.
In today’s round-up we bring you the PEN International Writer of Courage, a poetry project launched by Amnesty International and the poet who is included on the TIMES magazines 46 women who are changing the world list. PEN International Writer of Courage Earlier this year Michael Longley, a poet in Northern Ireland won the PEN Pinter Prize, on Tuesday this week he announced Mahvash ...
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard was an American poet born at the end of the 18th century who was generally known as John G. C. Brainard. He also practiced as a lawyer and was a newspaper editor at different times. His ancestors included the man who was responsible for founding the English settlement on Long Island that would eventually become New York State. He ...
In today’s round-up we bring you stories about World Mental Health Day, the Lenore Marshal Poetry Prize, and Tony Walsh aka Longfella helping a local company celebrate with a poem Neil Hilborn’s OCD Yesterday marked World Mental Health Day 2017, and it somehow seems fitting that one of the most watched poets in the world, Neil Hilborn was recently interviewed about his poem OCD. The ...
John Gillespie Magee Jr. was an Anglo-American poet and fighter pilot who died tragically young while serving in England with the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941. He is known for his poignant poetry, honouring Air Force colleagues who had died on active service, and also for an elegy to the war poet Rupert Brooke, a man whose work that he deeply ...
At My Poetic Side, we like to bring you a variety of news articles and today"s selection brings you a new collection of poetry to honour Martin Luther King, a poets brain donated to science to help Alzheimer’s research and the Instagram rise of Rupi Kaur. Martin Luther King to be Honoured in New Poetry Collection A book of powerful poetry, inspired mainly ...
John Gneisenau Neihardt was a US poet whose historical fascination with the period in his country’s history when the frontiersmen were coming to the end of their mass settlement of the great plains made him an ethnographer. His specific area of interest was the effect on the indigenous people who were often displaced by white settlers. His famous book Black Elk Speaks, ...
We begin this week’s news roundup with stories that include a new book of poetry by Leonard Cohen, a play to mark the anniversary of the death of Vernon Watkins and haikus for senators in the US. New Leonard Cohen Poetry Book to be Published To many people, Leonard Cohen was a genius singer, songwriter and musician known for a lengthy career in ...
Joseph Blanco White was a Spanish-born, English poet, magazine editor and theologian whose strong religious faith was tested on many occasions, leading him to change his religion at different times. He was born on the 11th July 1775 in the southern Spanish city of Seville. His ancestors were Irish and he took the name “Blanco White” from his father, an English diplomat who ...
We bring the week of news roundups to a close with another shocking revelation of an accusation of plagiarism in the literary world, this time the work in question is “Poetry Will Save Your Life” by Jill Bialosky. Another Poet Accused of Plagiarism The poetry world has once again been shocked by accusations of plagiarism levelled against one of its own. Jill Bialosky, who is ...
John Henry Boner was an American poet, editor and government employee who would eventually become known as "North Carolina"s First Man of Letters". He was born on the 31st January 1845 in the Moravian community of Salem. He had a rudimentary education and went to work for the local newspaper at the age of 13. This fuelled his journalistic ambitions and, by the age of ...
