Today in our poetry news round up, we take a look at the 100th anniversary of Yeats’ Nobel Prize and the Phillis Wheatley book acquired by a museum. 100th Anniversary of Yeats’ Nobel Prize to be Celebrated This weekend, leading Irish poets will be gathering in Sligo to celebrate the centenary of the poet WB Yeats being awarded a ...
This week on My Poetic Side, we begin with a look at Michael Rosen’s Covid enquiry poem, the winner of the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize and the poet on the cover of Vogue. Covid Enquiry Poem by Michael Rosen At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the writer and poet Michael Rosen spent 48 days in intensive ...
Today in our poetry news round up we look at the Guam poet who has won the National Book Award, the purchase of Reading Gaol and the Palestinian poet who has been released from detention. Guam Poet Wins National Book Award for Poetry Craig Santos Perez, a poet who has roots in Guam, has been awarded the 2023 National Book ...
We begin the week on My Poetic Side with a look at the protest against the use of a famous poem in a film, a Seamus Heaney study and the sanitised versions of Chaucer’s works. Poet’s Family Protest Use of Anthem AR Rahman, the winning composer and singer, has been the subject of significant backlash for his rendition of the anthem known ...
Today's poetry news roundup looks at the boycott of the Poetry Foundation, the death of David Ferry, and the crisis faced by the Haiku. Writers and Poets Boycott the Poetry Foundation Over 200 writers and poets have made a pledge to boycott both the Poetry Foundation and “Poetry”, its poetry journal. The reason for their boycott is due to the ...
