We start the week with a look at the trust hoping to save a poet"s grave, the poetry inspired names for a pair of tiger cubs and the winner of the Costa Book of the Year award. Coleridge Trust Receives Gift to Help Save Poets Grave A £20,000 donation has been made to the trust that is fighting to save the grave in Highgate ...
Today’s poetry news round-up looks at an honorary degree for Nikki Giovanni and the museum dedicated to a poet that is in the middle of a dispute over ownership of artifacts. Best Selling American Poet, Nikki Giovanni, Awarded Honorary Degree The University of the South highlights the accomplishments each semester of a range of accomplished professionals from a range of very diverse fields. ...
We begin the week with a look at the backlash to a commemorative look at the life of Robert Burns with a less than favourable opinion, and the launch of a poetry collection at Expo 2020 in Dubai. “Trashing” of Poetry Legacy Receives Backlash [caption id="attachment_15836" align="alignleft" width="300"] list[/caption] An argument has broken out following the commemoration by the Scottish Poetry Library of the work of ...
Today's poetry new round up takes a look at the Bob Dylan Centre First Artist-in Residence, the farm linked to Robert Burns and why Amanda Gorman prepared for a shooter during the inauguration ceremony last year in the US. Joy Harjo Named as Bob Dylan Centre First Artist-In-Residence The current US poet laureate Joy Harjo is now the inaugural Artist-In-Residence at Bob Dylan's Centre ...
We begin the week with a look at an article about the poet Robert Burns, and the death of the Russian poet Anatoly Naiman. Letters Reveal Robert Burns Advised not to Write in Scots A selection of letters that are part of a project being carried out by the University of Glasgow indicate that the poet Robert Burns was advised not to use ...
