We begin a new week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the museum exhibit combining art and poetry, the Keralan poet taking the literary world by storm, and the stolen statue of a poet. Museum Façade Draped in Lifejacket The neoclassical façade of the Minneapolis Institute of Art has been given a makeover of the colourful kind. The six Greco-Roman stone ...
Our final poetry news round-up of the week looks at the second most popular museum in Turkey for 2019 and the library named for a poet and famous alumna. Turkish Museum Dedicated to Poet Sees 3.4M Visitors in 2019 The Mevlana Rumi Museum, which is located in Konya, Turkey has reported that last year they had a record 3.4M visitors. This is a ...
Today on My Poetic Side we bring you the news of the deaths of two poets. The first, a Russian poet and journalist Elena Katsyuba; the second, Kamau Brathwaite, the Caribbean poet. Poet Elena Katsyuba Dies at age 74 The Russian poet Elena Katsyuba passed away last Friday at the age of 74. Katsyuba was a member of the PEN club and also the Moscow ...
Today on My Poetic Side we take a look at the poet's pleas for more Northern voices reading the news. We also look at the poet who has been teaching writing in prisons for over 40 years. The Bard of Barnsley’s Plea Regarding T’news Ian McMillan, who has long been referred to as the Bard of Barnsley and is a staunch campaigner for the ...
Today in our poetry-related news round-up we look at an art exhibition in Tehran, the Marlborough LitFest 2020 and the return of Poetry on the Underground. The Exhibit of Illustrated Poetry A stunning exhibition was recently unveiled in Tehran which showcases illustrated adaptations of poems written by Hafez, the renowned Iranian poet. The artwork featured in the exhibition was created by Samira Darya and is ...
