Our final poetry news roundup of the week looks at the award
for Emirati women poets, the poet who is to get a headstone after 124 years and
the burial fabrics of a poet that are to be preserved by the Smithsonian.
Award Launched to Celebrate Emirati Women Poets
Coinciding with Women’s Day in the ...
Today’s poetry news round-up takes a look at the Nasimi Festival, the Emily Dickinson Lecture and the 400-year-old-tree that is in danger of collapsing.
2019 Nasimi Festival
The Nasimi Festival of Poetry, Arts and Spirituality, a four-day long cultural extravaganza, is being set up in Azerbaijan. The festival is being planned to ...
Today on My Poetic Side we take a look at the archives of a
mostly forgotten poet that have been gifted to the archive of the Cambridge
University Library.
Forgotten Poems to be Archived by Cambridge University
Cambridge University archivists are to step forward and save
a rare collection of handwritten poems by James Withers, ...
Today, our poetry news round up takes a look at the donation of literary works gifted to the University of Limerick. We also have an article about the memorial of the
International Day of the Remembrance of the Slave Trade
and he 43rd death anniversary of the poet Kazi
Nazrul Islam.
Library at University of Limerick Receives Donated ...
We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the
poet who has been jailed, the anniversary of the first enslaved Africans in the
US marked by a poet and Simon Armitage’s first couple of months as poet
laureate.
Poet handed jail sentence
Rita Wong, an associate professor and award-winning poet has
been ...
Our final poetry news of the weeks looks at the church with
connections to a poet that has received a lottery boost and the possibility
that the poet John Keats was a graverobber.
Church Gets Lottery Boost
Church-goers in Kelloe are celebrating the £193,000 cash boost from the lottery that will assist them in ...
Today we bring you an article about the longlist for this year"s Booker Prize, we also have the long-lost portrait of Coleridge which fetched a startling amount at auction and the poet who rang the emergency helpline number.
2019 Booker Prize
The longlist for this year"s Booker Prize, which is to be sponsored ...
Today in our poetry roundup, we take a look at this year’s Gerard Manley Festival. We also have an article and about the Ilkley Literature Festival and Robert Burns the Musical.
Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival
The town of Monasterevin in Ireland is getting ready for the two-day
Gerard
Manley Hopkins Festival this weekend. ...
Today in our poetry news round-up we take a look at the streets in Islamabad that will be named after poets. We also have a story about a burglary at the home of the late Ruth Stone.
3 Roads in Islamabad to be Named After Poets
The CDA (Capital Development Agency) has confirmed ...
We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the Wordsworth exhibition that is going to London. We also look at the film based on the musical Cats, and the New Hampshire Poet Laureate position.
Special Dorothy Wordsworth Exhibition Heads to London
Dorothy’s Room, an exhibition that ...