Our final news round-up of the week take a look at this years Ledbury Poetry Festival, the winner of the Trillium Book Award and the new poet in Residence at Keats' House. Ledbury Poetry Festival 2019 This year’s line-up for the Ledbury Poetry Festival is proving to be a rather popular one, ...
Today’s poetry news roundup takes a look at the winners of two poetry prizes. We also take a brief look at the State Memorial for Les Murray. Inaugural Prize Winner Announced by Poet Laureate As one of his first official duties as the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage has announced the winner of a ...
Today in our poetry round-up we have the winner of this year's Caterpillar Poetry Prize and the poet's cabin that is on the move. Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2019 The winner of this year's Caterpillar Poetry Prize is Andrew Weale for his work “Wonder-pudderful”. This is an annual poetry prize that is awarded for ...
Today in our poetry news roundup, we take a look an unpublished poem by Siegfried Sassoon that has recently been found. We also have this year's winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Lost Poem by Siegfried Sassoon Discovered A university researcher who was trawling though a pile of letters from a theatre director has ...
We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the winner of this year's Lambda Literary Award. We also have a short article about the annual Pushkin Day celebrations. Lambda Literary Award 2019 The winner of this year’s Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry has been announced as Justin ...
