This week, our poetry news round up looks at the winner of the 2025 TS Eliot poetry prize, the Burns inspired poetry competition and plans to restore William Blake's cottage back to its 1800 appearance. 2025 TS Eliot Poetry Prize Winner Announced Karen Solie, a Canadian poet, has been named the winner of the 2025 ...
This week on My Poetic Side, we take a look at the annual William Barnes celebrations and the death of Kim Sin-yong. Annual Celebration for Poet William Barnes and Dorset Culture Celebrations will be held for the 225th birthday of Dorset’s beloved dialect poet, William Barnes. The Tea with William Barnes is an annual event that is ...
This week our poetry news round up looks at plagiarism linked to Dylan Thomas, the sale of the pub where William Blake was arrested and the protected status of a hotel where Wilfred Owen recuperated. As a Schoolboy Dylan Thomas “Plagiarised Other Poets” According to a publicist and author who has been looking at early works by Dylan Thomas, ...
Our first poetry news round up of 2026 takes a look at the poet awarded an MBE in the New Years honours list, a poetry event in a cathedral and the poet taking part in the inauguration for the new mayor of New York. Poet Awarded MBE in New Year Honours List The novelist and poet Andrew McMillan has been awarded an MBE in the ...
Today, we’ll take a look at the 300 year old mystery of Joachim do Bellay, and the collaboration between Scotland and Jamaica. Archaeologists Solve 300-Year-Old Mystery French researchers and archaeologists believe that they have identified the final remains of Joachim du Bellay, the famed French Renaissance poet who died in 1650. Following the poets death, it was never fully ...
