We keep you updated on the world of poetry with our news roundups.
Today, we bring you news from Wales and Denver USA, as we continue our search for poetry news across the globe. Neil Hilborn wows them in Wales Today we bring you news of an exciting poet who is causing a sensation with his current 32 date British tour which finishes on September 9th. Houston born Slam Poet Neil Hilborn recently blew away the crowds ...
James Edwin Campbell was a 19th century African-American poet whose life was tragically cut short by pneumonia. His output of poetry only ran to two volumes but it was said that the second collection, called Echoes from the Cabin and Elsewhere, contained some of the best poems written in the Gullah dialect to be found anywhere in the 19th century. He also ...
Today’s poetry news round-up celebrates the winners of the inaugural Wordsworth Trust Single Poem prize and the top three entrants chosen by members of the public, are all from Poetry Society members. The Wordsworth Trust is a memorial to the works of celebrated poet William Wordsworth and offers, and maintains, contemporary visual art and poetry readings as well as Wordsworth’s historical ...
James Hebblethwaite was an English-born Australian poet, church man and teacher. He was born on the 22nd September 1857 in Preston, Lancashire, the son of a corn miller. The family had fallen on hard times and James had to take responsibility for his own education, gaining scholarships where he could. He ended up at St John's College in Battersea, South London where he studied between 1877-1878 to become ...
Today’s poetry news looks at the issue of whether learning poetry by heart is relevant in the modern world and if so, what can it teach us? Columnist Fleda Brown this week wrote a column discussing this possibility and it made very interesting reading. Most of us will remember being at school and having to learn everything by heart, from times tables ...
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 ...
