Today’s poetry news round-up takes a look at the 2023 winners of the Rathbone Folio Prize and the search for a special poetry collection as part of a family genealogy project. Rathbone Folio Prize Winner Announced Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and critic; Michelle de Kretser, the novelist; and Victoria Adukwei Bulley, the poet, have all been named as ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we look at “Science Around Us”, Nick Caves' response to a fan who likened his work to Charles Bukowski and a “Host of Golden Daffodils”. “Science Around Us” Competition to be Judged by Lemn Sissay A poetry competition for budding writers will challenge them to create a Twitter-style micropoem on the theme “Science Around Us”. ...
In today’s poetry new round-up we look at World Poetry Day and the plans for National Poetry Month in America. Poet Laureate Celebrates World Poetry Day Simon Armitage, the UK poet laureate has celebrated World Poetry Day 2023 with the release of a poem inspired by the humble plum tree. The poem was commissioned by the National Trust as part ...
Today’s poetry new round-up looks at a rare poem that is at risk of leaving the country, and a rare art find with links to poetry. Rare Anti-slavery Poem at Risk of Leaving UK The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), says that a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which looks at the evils of slavery and the fate of the slaves ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we look at the death of Kenzaburo Oe, the plans to rename an American Lake and the winner of the Chowdhury Prize in Literature. Kenzaburo Oe the Japanese Nobel Winning Poet Dies Aged 88 It has been announced that Kenzaburo Oe, the Nobel literature laureate from Japan, died on 3rd March. The cause of his ...
