We keep you updated on the world of poetry with our news roundups.
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 ...
Joshua Sylvester was an English poet and essayist who was perhaps best known as the translator of a scriptural epic by the Huguenot poet and courtier Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas. This was known as Divine Weekes and Workes. He was born sometime during the year 1563 in the Medway region of Kent, a county in the south east of England. He was the ...
Ruǎn Jí was a Chinese musician and poet who lived during the 3rd century, a time also known as the Three Kingdoms period or the Eastern Han Dynasty. He is recorded as being a member of a group of musicians and writers called the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. One of his most famous pieces of work was a Guqin melody whose title in English ...
Today we dedicate our news round up to a look at the winners of this year’s annual Forward Poetry Prizes. The 26th Annual Forward Poetry Prizes Last night at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre some of the nation’s most coveted poetry prizes, sometimes referred to as the poetry Oscars, were awarded. The Jury Chairman, Andrew Marr, and the judging panel heard readings from ...
Today at My Poetic Side we bring you poetry stories about a confrontation at the UN, the unlikely combination of wrestling and poetry and the 50th anniversary of oldest Independent Black press in the United States Trump Trolled with Poetry On Tuesday in his debut speech to the UN President Donald Trump said that the Iranian government was “a corrupt dictatorship behind the false ...
Juan del Encina was a Spanish poet, playwright and musical composer whose name is also sometimes recorded as Juan del Enzina. He holds the prestigious honour of being one of the founders of Spanish drama, along with a Portuguese troubadour and writer named Gil Vicente. He was born Juan de Fermoselle on the 12th July 1468 somewhere near the north western city of Salamanca. ...
Juan Ruiz was a famous Castilian poet of medieval times who is also known as the Archpriest of Hita. Amongst the many poems against his name is, perhaps, his most famous composition, a ribald piece called Libro de buen amor which translates as The Book of Good Love. A manuscript extract from it is illustrated above. It is widely believed that this piece of work was completed in 1343 ...
Today’s poetry round up looks at the new Australia $10 bill and rejoices in the news that the author of Prison Poems has been released after 10 years in jail. New Australian $10 Bill Tomorrow Australia will roll out their new $10 bill; the shape, size and colour are still the same but these new look notes boast a couple of changes. Notably better ...
