We begin the week here at My Poetic Side with the story of a poem that has inspired a piece of music for the St Asaph Music Festival. We also have an article about Tracy K. Smith, the U.S Poet Laureate who will be delivering a lecture this week at St Mary’s College, Notre Dame. Highlight of St Asaph Music Festival Inspire by Story of Poet’s Son...
Our last roundup of the week looks at the Ted Hughes Festival, the renovation work on a Robert Burns' Plaque and the poetry book that wasn’t. Ted Hughes Festival The fourth annual Ted Hughes festival will be taking place from 7thto 9th September in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, UK. This year the festival will take on a thoroughly modern theme with the more “traditional poets” ...
Today on My Poetic Side we have several different articles for you. We take a brief look at this year's Ruth Lily and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships, we have a poetry book inspired by an unsolved murder mystery and the events planned on the fifth anniversary of the death of Seamus Heaney. Five Fellowships for Young Poets Earlier this week the Poetry Foundation ...
Today in our poetry news roundup we take a look at a couple of awards, the Wallace Stevens Award and the Appalachian Writers Association book of the year award. We also take a look at the founder of the Dead Poets Society of America whose last wish has finally been granted. Winner of The Wallace Stevens Award Announced The Academy of American poets ...
Today"s poetry roundup looks at the lost garden linked to the poet Alexander Pope, a Gaelic language archive which includes poetry that is to be made available to the public and the winner of this year’s Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Award. Poet Linked to Lost Garden Landscape historian Emily Parker was pouring over one of the manuscripts of the poet Alexander Pope kept at ...
