We keep you updated on the world of poetry with our news roundups.
We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the play by Ntozake Shange which is taking to the stage. We also look at the poetry that forms part of the earthquake archive of the museum of Anchorage. For Colored Girls Comes to Open Stage in Harrisburg The award-winning play by Ntozake Shange is to make its appearance on ...
We end the week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the National Anthem of Finland. We also bring you information about the 2019 Wirral Festival of Firsts. Independence Day – Finland This week, Finns celebrate both Sibelius Day and Independence Day, and the question of the national anthem has once more resurfaced. It was just two years ago when the leaders of ...
Today on My Poetic Side we look at a letter written by Rupert Brooke that is going up for auction, and the proposed mine work to be carried out near the homestead of the late Dorothea Mackellar. Letter from Rupert Brooke to “Lovelorn” Admirer to go Under the Hammer Previously unseen correspondence between the poet Rupert Brooke and a college friend is to ...
Today we take a look at one of the shortlisted names for this years Wole Soyinka Poetry Prize. We also bring you the appointment of a poet laureate for St. John’s, and finally, the airports in Russia getting new names. Wole Soyinka Shortlist Announced Last week saw the announcing of the shortlist for this years Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Harriet Anena, ...
Today’s poetry news round up takes a look at Wilfred Owens' bugle, which has been played in public again. We also take a look at yet more artwork drawn by a poet that has been found after many years of being missing. Owen’s Bugle Played in Scottish Church The bugle that belonged to Wilfred Owen, the First World War poet, has been played ...
We begin the week here at My Poetic side with the news of another rare manuscript that has been found and is off to auction. We also have an article about a poet accused of plagiarism. Rare Manuscript Could Fetch Around £300,000 at Auction During a visit to Melford Hall in Suffolk, Dr Gabriel Heaton from Sotheby’s located what he has described as a ...
Our final poetry news roundup of the week takes a look at the claims of “unacknowledged debt” made in an academic paper, and the winner of this year’s Caterpillar Poetry Prize. The Uncelebrated Poet: Amy Lowell An interesting paper, Myths, Legends and Apparitional Lesbians, written by a lecturer in English at the University of York, Dr Hannah Roche, has made claims that the work ...
Today on My Poetic Side we take look at the school girl from Singapore who has won the oldest poetry competition in the world, the Greenock poet who has been honoured in his home town, and the Nigerian poet who has passed away at 51. Win in World’s Oldest Poetry Competition Wins Singaporean School Girl a Trip to the Palace A 13-year-old student from ...
Today in our poetry news round up, we have the winner of this years Latner Writer’s Trust Prize, a poet’s bust unveiled in Nepal and a pop-up poetry event taking place in Brooklyn this weekend. Jordan Scott, NIC Instructor, Wins National Poetry Prize This year's Latner Writer’s Trust Poetry Prize has been won by Jordan Scott, an English instructor at North Island College (NIC). The ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we take a look at the Chinese painting by Su Shi that sold at auction for almost $60 million. We also have an article about the 2019 International Poetry Festival in Nicaragua that has been cancelled, and finally the re-release of Tupac's greatest hits album. Chinese Painting Fetches Nearly $60 million What has been described by the auction house ...
