Ledbury Competition Winner/Sissay Awarded Freedom Of London/Russian Protestors Risk Arrests At Poet Sites – Poetry News Roundup January 30th

 

Today on My Poetic Side, we look at the winner of the Ledbury Poetry Competition, another honour given to the poet Lemn Sissay and the poet statues being used as memorials in Russia. Ledbury Poetry Competition Winner 2022 The winner of the £1,000 Ledbury Poetry Competition for 2022 is Naoise Gale, and the winning poem in s “How (Not) to Say Impossible Things”.  The ...

Olympic Games Poet Receives Award/War Poetry Safeguards/BrechtFest – Poetry News Roundup January 23rd

 

In today"s Poetic Side news round-up, we have the Olympic Games poets award, the call for the WWI poets to remain on the curriculum and BrechtFest IV. University of Leicester Award for Olympic Games Poet Lemn Sissay, the official poet of the 2012 London Olympic Games, has received an award from the University of Leicester. On Thursday last week, he ...

Eliot Prize Winner Announced/Scots Poem Winner Read By Cosmo – Poetry News Roundup January 18th

 

Today in our poetry news round-up we take a look at this year's winner of the TS Eliot Prize, Anthony Joseph. We also look at the poll to find the most popular Scots poem. TS Eliot Prize Winner Announced Anthony Joseph has been named as the winner of this year's TS Eliot prize. For what the judges described as ...

King’s Poetry Medal/Dante Stir – Poetry News Roundup January 16th

 

We begin another week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the first Kings Gold Medal for Poetry to be awarded by King Charles III and the remarks made about Dante at a political event. King Charles III Awards First King’s Gold Medal for Poetry Selima Hill, the celebrated writer, has been announced by Buckingham Palace as this ...