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 ...
Today, we look at the death anniversary of Mirza Ghalib, the search for a new face for the Canadian $5 note and the sale of a home associated with Wordsworth. Mirza Ghalib Death Anniversary Observed The 151st death anniversary of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, the classical Urdu poet, was celebrated on Saturday in Pakistan. During his lifetime Ghalib wrote several hundred Ghazals. These have ...
