To start the week, here at My Poetic Side with a focus on the campaigners who took to the internet in a virtual protest march. We also comment on the remakes of Imagine that have materialised over the last couple of weeks. Virtual March to Save Reading Gaol Campaigners looking to save the re-development of Reading Gaol had their plans to hold a match ...
In our final poetry news of the week, we have an article about the Oxford Poetry festival which has been postponed and we look at the stars reading sonnets online. Oxford Poetry Festival Postponed The Oxford, Nova Scotia poetry festival which was due to take place in April has been postponed until 2021. Concerns over the spread of Covid-19 and the restrictions on travel ...
Today, our roundup explores news of a potential new Poet Laureate, the celebration of Freedom Day in Belarus, and Dante Day Success. Student from Sheffield Hailed as Next Poet Laureate During an award ceremony that celebrated women, Sylvia Chen, a student from Sheffield, was hailed as a contender to be the next Poet Laureate. Chen was at the awards ceremony, which took place in ...
Today in our poetry news round-up we look at the online event taking place in Italy to mark Dante Day. Dante Day March 25th marks Dante Day, or Dantedi, the day that Italy had put aside to remember the poet Dante Alighieri. This year marks the 700th anniversary of his death and would have been the first Dantedi. With the country in lockdown as ...
Today in our poetry news round-up we look at the print exhibition inspired by a poet and the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards. Gallery Show Inspired by Poet On Thursday last week, a fortnight-long art exhibition opened in Henley. The work on display was produced by a group made up of 14 different printmakers. The exhibition, titled “The Poetics of Print” had been put together to ...
