Today on My Poetic Side, we look at the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, reinvented using AI, the new Oxford ProAugustfessor of Poetry Canon and the 35th Annual Cowboy Poetry Festival. Ginsberg Poetry Given New Life Using AI The estate of Allen Ginsberg, the countercultural icon and acclaimed American poet, will be bringing his poetry to life thanks ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we look at the exhibition that remembers a Georgian poet and the inclusion of Alfred Lord Tennyson on a list of notable LGBT figures. Exhibition to Remember Georgian Poet A new exhibition has opened up in the Georgian capital, which commemorates the poet Paolo Iashvili, a prolific writer who, during the Stalinist purge, took his ...
We begin the week with a look at the winner of the inaugural Yeats Poetry Prize, the 2023 Poet Laureate Fellows in America and the Tweet mistakenly attributed to a deceased poet. Winner of the Inaugural Yeats Poetry Prize Announced Sara Berkley has been named as the winner of the inaugural Yeats Poetry Prize for “The Last Cold Day”. The ...
Today in our poetry news round up we look at the poetry links to the Oppenheimer film, the winner of the 2023 Gingko AONB Prize and the Robert Burns Holiday cottage. The Influence of Poetry on Oppenheimer With the opening of the film Oppenheimer this last weekend, a film which looks at the man who played a leading role in ...
We begin the week with a look at the interesting history behind the appointments that were made to the post of poet laureate during the 1960s to 1980s. The Poets, Who Were Not, Laureate Released by the National Archives in Kew, official papers shed some interesting light on the rather bitter backbiting and infighting that took place around the names ...
