In todays poetry round-up we bring you the poet who wrote to Dame Vera Lynn, Googles doodle in honour of the Egyptian poet Farouk Shousha, and the winner of the 2018 William Meredith Award for Poetry. Wolverhampton Poet Gets Letter from Dame Vera Lynn Reg Summerfield, a poet based in Wolverhampton has received the seal of approval from Dame Vera Lynn – The Forces ...
In today's poetry news round up we head over the Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to take a look at the 16th annual Sharjah Arab Poetry Festival as poetry becomes increasingly more popular in the Arab countries. Then we head to the US where the Rochester Institute of Technology has been given a grant to digitalise rare ASL poetry videos. Sharjah Arab Poetry Festival...
We begin the week here at My Poetic Side with an article about Mikhail Baryshnikov and his performance of the poetry of Joseph Brodsky. We also take a look at the Malawian poet Julius Jules Banda who has appealed to his fellow countrymen for financial support to attend a poetry festival in the UK later this year. Baryshnikov Brings Brodsky to the Stage Brodsky/Baryshnikov ...
In today"s poetry round-up we bring you a rather mixed bag of stories; The city of Cincinnati is searching for their next Poet Laureate; a mystery poem has appeared in protest at the site of a proposed quarry in Stanstead Abbots and finally the live performance of “Ask Your Mama” a poem by Langston Hughes at a tribute concert. Cincinnati Poet Laureate The city ...
Today at My Poetic Side we bring you the sad news of the death of the National Poet Laureate and Political activist Keorapetse Kgositsile, who died just yesterday after a short illness. South African National Poet Laureate Dies at 79 2018 has not got off to a great start for the literary community with the news that the National Poet Laureate of South Africa ...
