A very varied new round up today, with a comparison between entrepreneurs and poets, a proposed anthology of poetry for the late Liu Xiaobo and a mystery poem in a small town in Carmarthen. Why Potential Entrepreneurs Should Turn to Poetry You could be forgiven for thinking that there is little correlation between the world of business and poetry but in fact there are more than a few similarities. Both the poet ...
From Mongolia to America; todays poetry news brings you details of the 37th World Congress of Poets, a lifetime achievement award and what many perceived as at attack on an iconic sonnet that symbolises America. 37th World Congress of Poets Yesterday saw the end of the 37th World Congress of Poets which this year was held in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. The event which was titled “The Mind of Nature of the Human ...
Today news articles bring us a meeting between two poets that changed the course of literary history and we see how science and religion are working together to uncover some long-lost poetry. When Owen Met Sassoon – One Hundred Years Ago In Edinburgh, just over 100 years ago Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, both English poets and decorated war heroes met for the first time. They had both been invalided ...
We begin this week by looking at an article on the Chinese poet who rose to fame via a few lines published on a blog and a new book which asks the interesting question “Why Poetry?”. From Isolated Poet to Celebrity In 2014, Chinese poet Yu Xiuhua created a sensation when she published a few lines from her poem “Crossing More Than Half of China to Sleep with You” on her blog, ...
Poetry gets loud at Edinburgh The Edinburgh Festival, the largest arts festival in the world this year sees poetry is getting in on the act in a big way. The Loud Poets are a collective of poets who established themselves in 2014 as a group determined to bring poetry to people who may not previously have considered it as entertainment. The Loud Poets, who comprise ...
