Today’s poetry news roundup takes a look at the winners of the 2021 Boca Henry Swanzy Award, and the poet’s statue on the council review list. 2021 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award Winners Announced Edward Baugh and Mervyn Morris, both Jamaicans and professors’ emeriti at the University of West Indies have been announced as this year’s winners of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award. Both men are ...
We begin the week on My Poetic Side with a look at this year’s StAnza International Poetry Festival and the Dr Seuss books being withdrawn from publication. Scotland’s International Poetry Festival Online Over the weekend StAnza, the International Poetry Festival in Scotland, went live online for the first time. The festival is an annual one based in St Andrews. This was the first time that it ...
Our final poetry news round-up of the week look at this year"s Moth Poetry Prize shortlist and the discovery of a previously unseen letter from a poet. Moth Poetry Prize Shortlist Announced The shortlist for this year"s Moth Poetry Prize has been announced by the current chair of the creative writing centre at the Seamus Heaney Centre. Nick Laird stated that the list ...
Today on My Poetic Side we have articles about the fan who has been given permission to be buried next to a poet, and the Yunus Emre poetry contest. Fan of Poet Granted Permission to be Buried Next to her Literary Heroine Under the Burial Act 1853, only local residents, individuals named on the electoral roll of a church and those who die in ...
Today's poetry news round-up is an eclectic mix with a look at what romantic poetry and Pokémon have in common, a possible new Banksy painting and Irish American Heritage Month. Pokémon and Romantic Poetry – What do they have in common? Thanks to a recent interest in Pokémon, you may have found yourself once again humming the theme song to the programme, and it ...
