We begin another week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the winner of the 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature, a talk on Dylan Thomas and the Emirates Literature Festival. Victorian Prize for Literature 2024 Grace Yee, a debut poet, has been announced as the 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature winner and also the winner of the poetry ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we take a look at the Sotheby’s poem sale that broke new ground, alongside the Poet’s teddy bear auction and why schoolchildren are writing to E.M Forster. Poem Sale at Sotheby’s Breaks New Ground Last week, Sotheby’s broke new ground through the sale of an Ordinals which was inscribed with a poem by Ana Maria Caballero. This ...
We begin the week with a look at the 2023 winner of the Kings Gold Medal; we also have an article about a letter written by Lord Byron, which will be going up for auction in March. King's Gold Medal for Poetry 2023 Mimi Khalvati has been announced as the King's Gold Medal for Poetry 2023 winner. The award, established ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we take a look at the work of a long lost Victorian poet, the 2024 Causley Trust poetry competition and Robert Burns on Minecraft. Long-lost work of Victorian Poet to be Republished Simon Tennie, an Associate Professor of Victorian Poetry working at Exeter University, has unearthed a treasure trove of poetry written by the Burnley poet ...
We begin the week by looking at an exciting discovery of work that may have been written by Louisa May Alcott under a pseudonym. Discovery of Possible Work by Louisa May Alcott A recent discovery by a scholar indicates that the poet and author Louisa May Alcott, author of “Little Women”, may have been much more productive than has ...
