This week’s poetry news round up takes a look at the blue plaque for a “forgotten poet”, and the arrest of Alice Oswald. Spotlight for the Forgotten Poet of the Troubles Earlier this week a blue plaque was unveiled for the poet Padraic Fiacc, who’s poetry which captured some of the darkest years in the history of Northern Ireland ...
This week on My Poetic Side we take a look at the opening of a museum dedicated to one of the most important modern Greek poets. We also look at the film based on a book about Dante’s Inferno. Monemvasia, Home of Yannis Ritsos, Transformed into Museum Yannis Ritsos was born in May 1909 and is arguably one of the ...
This week on My Poetic Side, we look at articles about the death of the poet and performance artist Andrea Gibson, and the shortlist for the Forward Poetry Prize. Andrea Gibson, Poet and Performance Artist, Dies Aged 49 The poet and performance artist Andrea Gibson, who had been the Poet Laureate of Colorado since 2023 and used they/them pronouns, has died at the age ...
This week on My Poetic Side, we take a look at the poet who has received an honorary doctorate, the 2025 Pushcart Prize winner and the PoemJazz event. National Poet of Wales Receives Honorary Doctor of Letters (Hon DLitt) Issa, the National Poet of Wales, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters (Hon DLitt) from Bangor University earlier this week. ...
This week on My Poetic Side, we take a look at the land linked to Siegfried Sassoon that has gone back up for auction, and the winners of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize. Historic Land Once Owned by Poet Re-listed A historic plot of land in Heytesbury has been re-listed for auction at triple the price it ...
