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James McAuley was a 20th century Australian poet and man of letters. He also worked as a journalist and literary critic. Perhaps his most famous literary “achievement” was a collaboration with fellow poet Harold Stewart in 1943. The pair invented a writer named Ern Malley and they submitted a body of work numbering seventeen poems to the editor of a magazine called Angry ...
Today we bring you the most anthologised poems, the Xu Zhimo Poetry Art Festival and the popularity of poetry in the Indian Parliament. The Most Anthologised Poems For many people poetry can be something of an intimidating experience, and whilst the benefits of this type of expressive writing are many it can be hard to know where to start. The editor of Lithub, Emily ...
Today at My Poetic Side we bring you the sad news of another passing in the world of poetry. Born in 1940 in Pune, India, Eunice De Souza died this weekend just a few days before her 77th birthday. She had been ill for the last couple of months and suffered a heart attack, passing away at her home in Vakola, Santacruz. She was ...
Today's news is a real mixed bag from across the globe, illustrating perfectly the diversities within the art. Belfast Poetry Jukebox Launched The Poesiomat: Poetry Jukebox is to be introduced to Belfast, and will be located outside the Crescent Arts Centre, as part of a poetry project being coordinated by poets Maria McManus and Deirdre Cartmill. It is hoped that the installation will help ...
James McIntyre was a Scottish-born, Canadian poet who became well known as “The Cheese Poet” due to the fact that he lived in, and wrote about, that area of the country famous for its dairy produce. His work was often met with derision but he was never discouraged from writing, despite a lack of genuine literary talent. He was born in Forres, in ...
Today we bring you multi lingual poetry expressed in the form of a mural in Canada and an American poet with five published collections of poetry who believes that poetry must be performed to be truly appreciated. Edmonton City Poetry Mural In a shopping mall in Edmonton City, Canada an awe-inspiring poetry mural has been erected. The poem, which is written in Cree, French ...
James Monroe Whitfield was a 19th century poet and political activist on behalf of African Americans. He was born on April 10, 1822 in New Hampshire. There are only scant records of his early years but it is known that he received very little in the way of formal education so it can be assumed that he was pretty much self-taught in many respects. ...
Today at My Poetic Side we contemplate “First they came” on the 125th anniversary of the birth of its creator, and we look at a previously unknown side of Siegfried Sassoon as a new opera “Silver Birch” takes place. Niemöller – The Pastor who clashed with Hitler 2017 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Pastor Martin Niemöller, a rather remarkable German ...
James Kenneth Stephen was a 19th century English poet. He also held the privileged position of private tutor to the Prince of Wales’s son, Prince Albert Victor. He was born into affluent circumstances in London on the 25th February 1859, the son of barrister-at-law Sir James Fitzjames Stephen. He had at least one notable literary family connection in the Bloomsbury Group writer Virginia ...
John Farrell, an Argentinean-born Australian poet, journalist, gold digger and brewer, was born on the 18th December 1851 in Buenos Aires, to a chemist who had emigrated with his wife from Dublin four years earlier. Within a year the family were on the move again, this time heading for Victoria where Mr Farrell tried his hand at prospecting for gold, and then ...
