Unpublished Haiku/First Poet Laureate of Boston Dies/New Award Launched – Poetry News Roundup August 24th

 

  Our final poetry round-up of the week looks at an recent haiku discovery, the death of Boston’s first poet laureate and the launch of a new award by the Dorothea Mackellar Memorial Society. Unpublished Haiku by Renowned Poet Discovered A rather exciting discovery has been made in Japan. The notebooks of the Haiku master Masaoka Shiki, who lived from 1867 to 1902, have ...

Edwin Morgan Award/Collins Reading/Ko Un – Poetry News Roundup August 23rd

 

Today's roundup brings you the winner of this years Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. We have an article about a poetry reading with Billy Collins and the latest news in the Ko Un sexual harassment case. Roseanne Watt Wins Prestigious Poetry Award The third annual Edwin Morgan Poetry Award has been won by the Isles songwriter, musician and poet Roseanne Watt. The prestigious award which has ...

Little Verse Book/Marvel Poets – Poetry News Roundup August 22nd

 

Today in our poetry news roundup we take a look at the pocket-sized book of verse that has been published for new teachers in Scotland. We also take a look at the poets who write for Marvel. Scottish Teachers Offered New Poetry Book As children in England still have a few weeks of their summer holidays left their contemporaries in Scotland are returning to school ...

Supermarket Poet/Walt Whitman – Poetry News Roundup August 21st

 

Todays poetry round up takes a look at the poet who takes his inspiration from supermarkets and a new book of Walt Whitman poetry that will be published next year. The Supermarket Poet 26-year-old poet Samuel Lee lives in Singapore finds the inspiration for his poetry in a rather unusual day-to-day place, and it has proved to be a great inspiration as he published ...

Byron’s Home to be Protected/ Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s life celebrations – Poetry News Roundup August 20th

 

We begin the week here at My Poetic Side with a story about the ancestral home of Lord Byron which is shortly to undergo a major programme of works to remove it from the “at risk” register. We also take a look at just some of the many commemorations planned for Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the former Prime Minister and poet who passed away last week. Poets Ancestral Home “At risk”...