Our final poetry news round-up of the week looks at the winners of the 2019 Costa Book Awards, celebrations for Robert burns and the poet laureate of Pennsylvania. Costa Book Awards 2019 – Winners Announced Earlier this week the five winners of the Costa Book Awards for 2019 were announced. There are ...
Today on My Poetic Side we take a look at the shortlist for this year’s TS Eliot Prize. We also have an article about the making of a film about the life of the poet and filmmaker James Broughton. TS Eliot Prize 2019 The literary world’s biggest poetry prize will be kicking off ...
Today we take a look at the birthday celebration for Norman Nicholson, the poems removed from a website and finally the poetry that will now be against the law. Poet's Birthday Celebration January 8th marks the birthdate of the poet Norman Nicholson. Born in 1914 Nicholson who hailed from Millom in the ...
Today in our poetry news round-up we take a look at the poet's cancelled lecture and the poem penned especially for the 10th anniversary of the Royal Manchester children’s hospital. MMIWG Lecture Cancelled At the end of last week, the award-winning poet George Elliott Clarke was facing calls to cancel a ...
Today on My Poetic Side we take look at a letter sent from T.S Eliot about his relationship with Emily Hale. Poet “Speaks” From Beyond the Grave We recently wrote about the exciting unveiling of a stash of over 1000 letters written by the poet T.S Eliot that were to be unveiled 50 ...
