In today’s round-up we bring you stories about World Mental Health Day, the Lenore Marshal Poetry Prize, and Tony Walsh aka Longfella helping a local company celebrate with a poem Neil Hilborn’s OCD Yesterday marked World Mental Health Day 2017, and it somehow seems fitting that one of the most watched poets in the world, Neil Hilborn was recently interviewed about his poem OCD. The ...
At My Poetic Side, we like to bring you a variety of news articles and today"s selection brings you a new collection of poetry to honour Martin Luther King, a poets brain donated to science to help Alzheimer’s research and the Instagram rise of Rupi Kaur. Martin Luther King to be Honoured in New Poetry Collection A book of powerful poetry, inspired mainly ...
We begin this week’s news roundup with stories that include a new book of poetry by Leonard Cohen, a play to mark the anniversary of the death of Vernon Watkins and haikus for senators in the US. New Leonard Cohen Poetry Book to be Published To many people, Leonard Cohen was a genius singer, songwriter and musician known for a lengthy career in ...
We bring the week of news roundups to a close with another shocking revelation of an accusation of plagiarism in the literary world, this time the work in question is “Poetry Will Save Your Life” by Jill Bialosky. Another Poet Accused of Plagiarism The poetry world has once again been shocked by accusations of plagiarism levelled against one of its own. Jill Bialosky, who is ...
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 ...
