In today’s poetry news roundup we take a look at the work of UNESCO and their project to save minority types of poetry, we also have an article relating to why Philip Larkin repeatedly turned down the position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. UNESCO Celebrates World Poetry Day Yesterday was the World's Poetry Day. The celebration launched by UNESCO in 1999 to ...
Today's poetry news roundup takes a look at the TV drama accused of plagiarism, National Poetry Month in the US and more poetry that will be set to music for the Leeds Lieder Festival Poet Accuses TV Drama of Stealing Lines from His Poetry The poet Lee Hwon has called out the producers of “Should We Kiss First” on SBS in South Korea of ...
In today’s poetry roundup we bring you Slovak musicians putting the poetry of Walt Whitman to music, a poet who has been fined for a protest during an election and finally a poet who has demanded his poetry be removed from the curriculum. When Music and Poetry Meet A Slovak musical project has chosen to combine the works of the American poet Walt ...
We begin the week here at My Poetic Side with three stories. The first takes a look at the 2917 Florida Book Awards, the second the 2018 Ledbury Poetry Festival, and finally, we take a quick look at the poet inspiring the Irish Rugby team with a poem. 2017 Florida Book Awards The winner of the 12th annual Florida Book Awards have just been announced. The award has been given for books ...
Our final poetry news-round up of the weeks brings us the first poet laureate for Barbados, the shortlist for the 201 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and finally takes a look at a new exhibition dedicated to Sandor Petofi which is opening in Baku. First Poet Laureate for Barbados Earlier this week Barbados confirmed their choice for their first Poet Laureate as Esther Phillips. ...
