Denied Visa/Twitter Poetry/ECC Limerick Bid – Poetry News Roundup September 29th

 

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 ...

National Poetry Day – Poetry News 28th September

 

Today at My Poetic Side we dedicate our news round up to National Poetry Day, here is just a taste of the many things that are going on all over the country. Appeal Launched to Save Rare Language Poetry The National Poetry Library has kicked off National Poetry Day with the launch of a project that it hopes will help save works of poetry ...

The Lost Essay/Langzi Release and Divine Chocolate – Poetry News Round-up 27th September

 

Today on My Poetic Side we bring you the lost essay of a poet, news of the release of Langzi and a poetry competition from Divine Chocolate. The Lost Essay of George Moses Horton A previously unknown essay, written by Horton, has been located in the archives at the New York Public Library. The 500-word essay, with its sermon like quality is titled “Individual ...

Yeats in Danger/Poetry Festival News – Poetry News Roundup 26th September

 

Today at My Poetic Side our roundup brings you stories of literary treasure that is in danger of being split up, and two very different poetry festivals that will be taking place at the beginning of October. Yeats Family Collection in Danger of Removed from Ireland A collection of more than 200 lots that illustrate the literary and artistic life on the best know ...

Sylvia Plath/Radio 4/National Poetry Day – Poetry News Round-up September 25th

 

We start this week’s poetry round up with articles about a Sylvia Plath letter, the new poet-in-residence at Radio 4 and we start the run up to National Poetry Day which falls on 28th September. Contents of New Sylvia Plath Letter Revealed During her lifetime Sylvia Plath, wrote many letters and next week a new volume titled “The Letters of Sylvia Plath” is ...