In the last poetry round up of the week, we look at the very popular Pam Ayres and travel to an event in Jaffa that was organised to show support for a poet who has been under house arrest for the last two years. Pam Ayres – Live Performance Poetry comes in all different shapes and sizes, some poems rhyme, some are short and ...
In today’s news roundup, we bring you the sad news that J. Otis Powell – a Poet and performer has passed away. J. Otis Powell – Poet and Performer dies at 61 The poet, playwright and performer J. Otis Powell passed away on Monday 28th August of kidney failure at the age of just 61. He had been suffering with ill health for several ...
Today in our poetry round up we here at My Poetic Side looks at the concept of the poetry machine and how it has evolved, and we offer our congratulations to the new poet Laureate of New Zealand. The Poetry Machine It sounds a bit far-fetched; a machine that writes poetry but the pursuit of creating such a machine has been consuming inventors for ...
Today’s news post brings you a round-up of the 70th Edinburgh Fringe Festival and looks at Blackout poetry. Edinburgh Fringe Festival This year saw the celebration of the 70th year of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; the largest celebration of the arts in the world. With Monday 28th August marking the final day of the 2017 festival, organisers were proud to announce that this year ...
This week we begin our news round up with a look at a young poet who could well have a big future ahead of her, the unlikely combination of poetry and boxing and an annual limerick competition. Young Poet in the making Last week saw pupils across the UK collecting the results of their GCSE’s and Matilda Houston-Brown, who spent a year serving as the youngest poet laureate in Staffordshire, was amongst ...
