Today My Poetic Side brings you Poets in Partnership, the reopening of the case into the death of Pablo Neruda and an overdue library book! Poets in Partnership The poet Daljit Nagra is currently undertaking a quest to find the best highlights from the last 90 years of poetry archives from the BBC. For the month of March, the poet has selected a number of ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we take a look at the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s first folio, the trust gifting Welsh Poetry and the winners of the 2023 Jnanpith Award. The Dames, and a Queen Celebrating Shakespeare A dozen dames joined Queen Camilla last week, in one of the most illustrious, star studded line-ups of female acting talent that Britain has ...
Today’s poetry news round up takes a look at the Thomas Robinson Prize, the poet who wants to give a poem to the Arctic Monkeys and the interest in Su Dongpo. Rita Dove to be Awarded Thomas Robinson Prize Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies has announced that it will be awarding this year’s Thomas Robinson ...
We begin the week on My Poetic Side with a look at the judging panel for this year’s CLiPPA Award. We also take a look at a new biography of the poet Lord Byron. Poetry Award Chair of Judging Panel Announced The poet Liz Berry has been announced as the chair of this year's judging panel for the Centre for ...
Today’s poetry news round up takes a look at the 58th Wallace Stevens Poetry Program, the largest ever donation to the Academy of American Poetry and a change at the helm of Ledbury Poetry. 58th Wallace Stevens Poetry Program The poet Terrance Hayes, a National Book Award winner and MacArthur “Genius,” will be visiting UConn in March for the 58th ...
We begin another week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the winner of the 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature, a talk on Dylan Thomas and the Emirates Literature Festival. Victorian Prize for Literature 2024 Grace Yee, a debut poet, has been announced as the 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature winner and also the winner of the poetry ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we take a look at the Sotheby’s poem sale that broke new ground, alongside the Poet’s teddy bear auction and why schoolchildren are writing to E.M Forster. Poem Sale at Sotheby’s Breaks New Ground Last week, Sotheby’s broke new ground through the sale of an Ordinals which was inscribed with a poem by Ana Maria Caballero. This ...
We begin the week with a look at the 2023 winner of the Kings Gold Medal; we also have an article about a letter written by Lord Byron, which will be going up for auction in March. King's Gold Medal for Poetry 2023 Mimi Khalvati has been announced as the King's Gold Medal for Poetry 2023 winner. The award, established ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we take a look at the work of a long lost Victorian poet, the 2024 Causley Trust poetry competition and Robert Burns on Minecraft. Long-lost work of Victorian Poet to be Republished Simon Tennie, an Associate Professor of Victorian Poetry working at Exeter University, has unearthed a treasure trove of poetry written by the Burnley poet ...
We begin the week by looking at an exciting discovery of work that may have been written by Louisa May Alcott under a pseudonym. Discovery of Possible Work by Louisa May Alcott A recent discovery by a scholar indicates that the poet and author Louisa May Alcott, author of “Little Women”, may have been much more productive than has ...
