Our final poetry news round-up of the week takes a look at a play about the life of Aphra Behn, the watery addition to a play inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and finally the Erasure poets finding inspiration in the Mueller report. Stage Debut for the Life of Aphra Behn The Department ...
Today's poetry news brings you articles about the first bust dedicated to the poet Liu Xiaobo, the Victor Hugo novel that has climbed the best seller list, a rare Mexican poetry book at auction and finally the poetry book that will fund a play park. Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo Honoured by Prague A bust in honour ...
Today's poetry news roundup takes a look at the winner of this year's Windham-Campbell Poetry Prize, the next Oxford Professor of Poetry and the push to save Walt Whitman's house. 2019 Winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry Kwame Dawes, an MFA faculty member has been awarded the Windham-Campbell prize for poetry. The ...
In today's poetry news, we take a look at the life of Stanley Plumly; a former poet laureate from Maryland who was an authority on the poet John Keats. Stanley Plumly Dies at 79 Stanley Plumly who served as the poet laureate for Maryland from 2009 t0 2018 ...
We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the recent discovery of the exact address where William Shakespeare lived in London. We also take a look at Lord Byron's Don Juan which is to go on display in Scotland. Where did William Shakespeare Live? The exact location where William Shakespeare ...
