In today's poetry round-up we bring you a 90-year-old poetry rejection letter, the posthumous poetry book from Helen Cadbury and the proposal to create a poet laureate post in Ontario in honour of Gord Downie. Ouch, Now That’s a Rejection Letter! 90 years after it was written a rejection letter that certainly didn’t hold any punches has emerged. The letter from Angus & Robertson ...
Another day and another poetry news round up. Today we look the poet who is shortly to be the subject of a film, the Poetry Aloud Competition and the founder of the Dead Poets of America Society who is pondering his own immortality and designing a gravestone inspired by the poets graves he has visitied. Poet Shel Silverstein to be Subject of Film The ...
Another news round-up and today we bring you the story of a poet who was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, the controversy over the poet on an Israeli banknote and finally the 2017 winner of the Ledbury Poetry Competition. Japanese Order of the Rising Sun Awarded to Poet One of the most distinguished national decorations in Japan has recently been awarded ...
As December gets underway we begin another week with a round-up of poetry news. Today we offer you stories about poetry quoted by top Chinese Military, the John F. Kennedy Centennial Poetry Contest and the poem for Harry and his Fiancée. Poetry Used to Mock Australian Concerns When it comes to communications relating to military matters, poetry is not a form of communication that spring readily to mind, yet that is exactly ...
We have reached the end of another week here at My Poetic Side and today’s news roundup brings another poetry prize winner. We also take a brief look at Shane Koyczan and think about the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh on the 50th Anniversary of his death. Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize The 2017 winner of the biennial Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, which is named after ...
