Today at My Poetic Side we take a look at recipient of this year’s Franz Kafka prize, the winners of this years Stevenson fellowship and the first ever National Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago. Recipients of This Year’s Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowships Announced The four winners of this years Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship have been names. The fellowship is run by the Scottish ...
In today’s poetry news roundup, we take a look at the poetry from yesterday’s One Voice concert in Manchester and the Merseyside poet that is set to headline the Charles Causley Festival. “This is what love sounds like” – Manchester a year on There is only one place to begin today’s news roundup, and this is with the mass sing-along that occurred in Manchester ...
In today’s poetry news roundup, we take a look at the United Nations stamps commemorating a poet and the poetry on the sidewalks of Edmonton. United Nations Postage Stamps On 26th May the United Nations Postal Administration will be issuing a stunning pane of 10 stamps and 10 labels. The set will be created in honour of the national poet of Georgia, Shota Rustaveli. The ...
We begin the week here at My Poetic Side with a couple of poetry related articles about this weekend royal wedding. We also have a short story about an article of poet related memorabilia that will shortly be going up for auction. The Sunday Times Poetry Competition One of the biggest news events of the year so far, if you are in the UK, ...
In our final poetry news round-up of the week, we look at the poet who received a Queen’s Gold Medal for poetry. We also look at the renewed call from writers all over the world for the release of the wife of the late Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. We also take a quick look at the first poet laureate of Tofino. Poet Receives Queen’s Gold Medal...
