We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the Queen’s audience with Grace Nichols and the exhibition on the work of Kim Stafford. Poet Grace Nichols Has Face-to-face Audience with Queen The Queen carried out another face-to-face meeting at the end of last week when she met with poet Grace Nichols. The Guyanese poet was at Windsor Castle to ...
Today’s poetry news round up looks at the White Review Poet’s Prize Winner for 2022, the bombing of a poet-named pub and the new book looking at the life of Sylvia Plath. White Review Poet’s Prize Winner for 2022 The winner of the 2022 White Review Poet’s Prize has been announced. Fahad Al-Amoudi, has been awarded the £2500 prize for what he judges described ...
Our first poetry news roundup of the week looks at the Coleridge exhibition at the Museum of Somerset and the new poem from the poet laureate Simon Armitage. Coleridge Manuscript Returns to Where it Was Written A handwritten copy of Kubla Khan, the poem that Samuel Taylor Coleridge claims came to him in a drug-induced reverie, is to be put on display at ...
Today in our poetry news round up we look at the 2022 winner of the Edward MacDowell Medal, the slam poet who kicked off London’s International Women’s Day events and the rewritten Burns poem to help DEC’s conflict work. Edward MacDowell Medal Awarded to Sonia Sanchez Sonia Sanchez, the activist, poet and educator, has been named as the 2022 winner of the Edward ...
We begin the week with a look at the 2022 winning recipient of the Kingsley Tufts award. We also have a short article about the new Boston Youth Poet Laureate, and we take a look at the sale of the rights to all of Leonard Cohen's songs. Kingsley Tufts Award 2022 The poet Divya Victor has been named as the recipient of the Kingsley ...
