Today, our roundup explores news of a potential new Poet Laureate, the celebration of Freedom Day in Belarus, and Dante Day Success. Student from Sheffield Hailed as Next Poet Laureate During an award ceremony that celebrated women, Sylvia Chen, a student from Sheffield, was hailed as a contender to be the next Poet Laureate. Chen was at the awards ceremony, which took place in ...
Today in our poetry news round-up we look at the online event taking place in Italy to mark Dante Day. Dante Day March 25th marks Dante Day, or Dantedi, the day that Italy had put aside to remember the poet Dante Alighieri. This year marks the 700th anniversary of his death and would have been the first Dantedi. With the country in lockdown as ...
Today in our poetry news round-up we look at the print exhibition inspired by a poet and the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards. Gallery Show Inspired by Poet On Thursday last week, a fortnight-long art exhibition opened in Henley. The work on display was produced by a group made up of 14 different printmakers. The exhibition, titled “The Poetics of Print” had been put together to ...
We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the Poet Laureate’s new poem, and this year’s World Poetry Day. Poet Laureate Pens Coronavirus Poem In his new poem about coronavirus Simon Armitage, the poet laureate takes a look at Eyam, the heroic village who put themselves into quarantine in 1665 in order to contain the spread of Black Death. The ...
Our final poetry news round-up of the week takes a look at the winners of this year's Windham-Campbell prize. We also bring you the news of the death of the poet Ashraf Siddiqui. Winners of the Windham-Campbell Prize for 2020 This year, women’s voices were certainly heard in the Windham-Campbell prize from Yale University. In total, seven women took home a total prize fund ...