Today on My Poetic Side we have searched the news to bring you a round-up that includes an article on a school’s poetry program in collaboration with local football stars, the shortlist of the final five hopefuls for the poetry category of the National Book Awards and poems about plastic bottles. Football Stars Return to School for Poetry Class A poetry contest, which is ...
Today we bring you poetry for austerity, Poetweet; the website that turns tweets into poetry and Latvian coins commemorating a poet. We Shall Overcome This weekend in and around Nottingham a group of musicians and poets will be joining forces for a full 4 days of charity gigs in aid of the anti-austerity movement. We Shall Overcomes, aims to bring a varied selection of ...
Today on My Poetic Side we bring you stories from all over the world; from Qatar to the US and then back to the UK. Poet has Citizenship Revoked Mohammad Bin Futais Al Marri, the well-known and respected poet in Qatar has had his citizenship revoked in a startling move by the government. In the last few months Qatar has been cracking down on ...
This week at My Poetic Side we begin with a story that once again combines poetry and politics, with an article about Boris Johnson, we also look at a schools poetry programme inspired by the landscape that inspired Seamus Heaney and we finish with the 13 year old winner of the Betjeman poetry prize. Boris Puts His Foot in it! Footage aired this weekend ...
Our final news round-up of the week brings you a denied entry visa, a look at poetry on Twitter and a Limerick bid for the European City of Culture. South African Poet Denied Entry to the UK Athol Williams, an acclaimed South African poet and author was due to return to his studies at the University of Oxford on Wednesday but instead was denied ...
