Today on My Poetic Side, we bring you stories about the new Ireland Professor of Poetry, the auction of Bob Dylan’s love letters and the baby giraffe named after a poet. New Ireland Professor of Poetry Paul Muldoon, the poet from Co Armagh, has been named as the next Ireland Professor of Poetry. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Muldoon ...
This week, on My Poetic Side, we go over the National Book Award winner for 2022, the Baillie Gifford Prize winner, and cover the Poetry Foundation's Pegasus Awards. National Book Award for Poetry Winner 2022 “Punks: New & Selected Poems” by John Keene has been named the winner of this year’s National Book Award for Poetry. The award ceremony for the ...
Today we look at the poet"s tree that has been awarded a plaque, the new inductee to the American poets’ corner and the nominees for the 2022 National Book Awards. Ancient Tree With Links to Poet Awarded Plaque An ancient black mulberry tree located on the grounds of Keats House has been awarded a plaque marking it as part of ...
We begin another week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the winner of the Cervantes Prize, a Blue plaque for an Ulster Scots poet, and finally, the poet who will be honoured during the Irish Writers weekend. 2022 Winner of Cervantes Prize Named The Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas has been named this year’s winner of the Cervantes ...
Today"s poetry round-up looks at a modern-day rewrite of a Wordsworth poem and the latest translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. 21st Century Rewrite of Poem on exhibition at Wordsworth Grasmere It is a little over 200 years since William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote about poverty in the Georgian era, and now a charity has created an ...
