Today’s poetry news round-up takes a look at the Nasimi Festival, the Emily Dickinson Lecture and the 400-year-old-tree that is in danger of collapsing. 2019 Nasimi Festival The Nasimi Festival of Poetry, Arts and Spirituality, a four-day long cultural extravaganza, is being set up in Azerbaijan. The festival is being planned to ...
Today on My Poetic Side we take a look at the archives of a mostly forgotten poet that have been gifted to the archive of the Cambridge University Library. Forgotten Poems to be Archived by Cambridge University Cambridge University archivists are to step forward and save a rare collection of handwritten poems by James Withers, ...
Today, our poetry news round up takes a look at the donation of literary works gifted to the University of Limerick. We also have an article about the memorial of the International Day of the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and he 43rd death anniversary of the poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. Library at University of Limerick Receives Donated ...
We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the poet who has been jailed, the anniversary of the first enslaved Africans in the US marked by a poet and Simon Armitage’s first couple of months as poet laureate. Poet handed jail sentence Rita Wong, an associate professor and award-winning poet has been ...
Our final poetry news of the weeks looks at the church with connections to a poet that has received a lottery boost and the possibility that the poet John Keats was a graverobber. Church Gets Lottery Boost Church-goers in Kelloe are celebrating the £193,000 cash boost from the lottery that will assist them in ...
