Our final news round-up of the week takes a look at the winner of this year's Ted Hughes Prize and also the search for the burial place of America's first published poet. Winner of 2019 Ted Hughes Prize The British Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus has been announced as this year’s winner of the ...
The renowned Bayelsa poet Gabriel Okara has passed away at the age of 97. He was just four weeks away from his next birthday, his 98th . He died ...
Today in our poetry news roundup, we take a look at the American School which will no longer be named after a poet, the winners of this year's Premier League poetry competition and the poet's house that has become a rather special museum. Austin School to be Renamed In the next step ...
Today on My Poetic Side we take a look at the special plans for the expansion of the Wordsworth Museum. We also have the historic visit of the Prince of Wales to Cuba and finally the winner of this years Walt Whitman Award. Expansion for Wordsworth’s House and Museum William Wordsworth served as Britain's poet ...
We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with an article about a church restoration. We also take a look at the story about Maya Angelou we looked at last week, as the women who called the poet by her first name has had a chance to put her side of the story. £2.1m Restoration Project Completed on Church with Literary Link...
