Today’s poetry news roundup on My Poetic Side looks at the 2018 Poetry Ireland Red Label project and the Bronte tribute that is being planned for unveiling on the Yorkshire moors later this year. Poetry Ireland Day 2018 Today to mark the 2018 Poetry Ireland day over 1000 small pieces of arts will be released in celebration. These short pieces of poetry which will be ...
Today’s poetry news round-up takes a look at the Galway International Literature Festival and the new poet laureate who has just taken on the two-year role in Halifax. Galway International Literature Festival Monday saw the start of this year’s Galway’s Cúirt International Literature Festival, which saw literary great converging in Galway for the week. The festival which has been running since 1985 is among ...
Today’s collection of news from the world of poetry brings us articles on an opera about Pushkin, the retiring chair of a poetry festival and the new poet laureate for Calgary. The Opera Based on the Life of Pushkin The life of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin has been turned into an opera, this will be the first ever dramatization of the poet’s life ...
We begin the week here at My Poetic Side with articles about poems penned by the late music star Prince, the verdict in the case of the Zambian Student who was fighting to take part in a poetry competition and the collection of Dylan Thomas memorabilia that is to be digitised. Paisley Park Enterprises May Release Prince’s Poetry It has been 2 years since ...
Our final news round-up of the year takes a look at the judge’s panel for this year’s T.S. Elliot prize. We also have an article about an exhibition in a library in honour of William Blake and finally a museum in Petersfield planning an exhibition that will be opened with a reading of poetry by one of the poets of the First World War. Chair of T.S. Eliot Prize Panel Announced...
