Our final poetry news round-up of the week takes a look at the campaign to save libraries in Essex. We also look at the poet who has been released on bail and finally, the winners of this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Campaign to Save Essex Libraries Joined by Authors and Poet...
Today on My Poetic Side, we take a look at a Wilfred Owen
Commemoration poetry competition, the book that has been issued with a
temporary export ban and the Tupac poem up for auction.
Wilfred Owen Commemoration - Awards for Young Poets
As part of the celebrations to make the centenary of the death ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we bring you two articles about the
estate of the late poet Donald Hall.
Donald Hall Estate Sale Draws Huge Crowd
Over the weekend, the estate sale of the late poet Donald Hall took place, and it drew huge crowds. The sale, which took place in Wilmot, ...
Today we look at articles about Meghan Markle’s Mother’s Day
message and the ageism row over the Oxford University professor of poetry
position.
Mother’s Day Message from Meghan Markle
On Sunday, the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle took to Instagram to share a picture of her newborn baby son’s feet. Whilst Mother’s Day in the ...
We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with an article about the
new poet laureate of the UK.
The UK’s New Poet Laureate
After many months of speculation, multiple poets ruling themselves out of the running and a week with no poet laureate at all, the announcement of a new poet ...