Today in our poetry news roundup, we look at the poet helping with the Essex year of reading and the growing movement against the poet Pablo Neruda. Essex Year of Reading The former children’s laureate and beloved children’s author Michael Rosen has been grabbing the attention of a group of schoolchildren in Basildon with a series of special poetry performances. The interactive sessions ...
We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with a look at this year’s shortlist for the T S Eliot poetry prize, the poets who have been commissioned to write poems for the BBC centenary and the concert inspired by poetry. T S Eliot Prize Shortlist Dominated by Debut Collections The recent announcement of the T S Eliot ...
Today on My Poetic Side, we take a look at the art of E.E. Cummings and the new memorial to Ted Hughes. The Poet Who Was Also An Artist The name E.E. Cummings is well known as a poet who brought a somewhat avant-garde syntax to the average reader. In fact between the ages of 8 and 22, it is ...
In today's poetry news round-up, we look at the mural that is being created to honour a Puerto Rican poet, and we also look at the poet who has been named the winner of this year's Baltic Assembly Literature Prize. Mural on the 606 Trail Honours Julia de Burgos A mural to commemorate the Puerto Rican poet, Julia ...
Today's poetry news roundup takes a look at what might be for this year's Nobel Prize for Literature and the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Coleridge. Will the 2022 Nobel Literature Prize Winner be Another Poet? Speculation is growing in the literary world as the Swedish Academy gear up to make the big announcement on ...
