In today"s news round-up we bring you the story of a poetry funding boost for Peterborough and the poem that found a new audience last week when Donald Trump made a startling announcement about Jerusalem. Peterborough Poetry to Receive Funding Boost Funding of £14,000 has been awarded to Charley Genever the former Poet Laureate of Peterborough. The money which has come from National Lottery ...
We begin another week here on My Poetic Side with a news article about a collection of Christmas cards from Robert Frost that have gone on display for the first time in over a century. We also look at the UAE poetry form that has been offered UNESCO safeguarding status. The Christmas Cards of Robert Frost A selection of Christmas cards sent by ...
Our final news round-up of the week brings you poetry for the sidewalks, the four poetry collections due to be launched in Ireland next weekend and That poem by Taylor Swift that seems to have caused quite some interest in the press this week. Santa Clarita Seeks Poetry for Sidewalks The city of Santa Clarita in Los Angeles County, California is seeking poets with ...
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 ...
