Today, we bring you news from Wales and Denver USA, as we continue our search for poetry news across the globe. Neil Hilborn wows them in Wales Today we bring you news of an exciting poet who is causing a sensation with his current 32 date British tour which finishes on September 9th. Houston born Slam Poet Neil Hilborn recently blew away the crowds ...
Today’s poetry news round-up celebrates the winners of the inaugural Wordsworth Trust Single Poem prize and the top three entrants chosen by members of the public, are all from Poetry Society members. The Wordsworth Trust is a memorial to the works of celebrated poet William Wordsworth and offers, and maintains, contemporary visual art and poetry readings as well as Wordsworth’s historical ...
Today’s poetry news looks at the issue of whether learning poetry by heart is relevant in the modern world and if so, what can it teach us? Columnist Fleda Brown this week wrote a column discussing this possibility and it made very interesting reading. Most of us will remember being at school and having to learn everything by heart, from times tables ...
The Weekly Standard, an American political opinion magazine, has published their take on America’s obsession with Russia, as imagined by Russian writer and poet Dmitry Bykov.The none too certain, shaky relationship between the United States of America and Russia is frequently in the news of late owing largely to the investigation centred around whether President Donald Trump did or did not receive ...
The hugging poet, John Horder, has sadly passed away at the age of 80. John’s favourite saying, Meher Baba’s maxim “don’t worry, be happy,” couldn’t sum him up better. In fact, it was his interest in the teachings of Baba, the Indian mystic, which led to his association as the hugging poet. It came about as Horder referred to Meher Bab as ...
