Today on My Poetic Side we look at the death of Emyr Humphreys and we have the Liberian poet who has won a prestigious international award. Emyr Humphreys Dies At 101 Described as one of the greatest cultural heroes of Wales, the poet and novelist Emyr Humphreys has sadly passed away, aged 101. He died at his home, which is in Llanfairpwll. During his lengthy ...
Today in our poetry news roundup we take a look a Juan Felipe Herrera’s new poetry collection, the zoom poetry session with Daljit Nagra and the Sonnets for Scams project. New Poetry Collection Paints Portrait of America Juan Felipe Herrera, the former US poet laureate, has just released his latest collection of poetry “Every Day We Get More Legal”. The collection is full ...
Today on My Poetic Side we take a look at the tribute to a Spanish poet, the poet who has been banned from travelling and an archive that has been donated to a library. Two Month Tribute Paid to Anti-Franco Poet A two-month event is to be staged in Orihuela in Spain, to commemorate the poet Miguel Hernandez. The event, which will take place ...
We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the petition in France to change the final resting place of two great French poets. France Contemplates Digging up Gay Poets The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, is coming under increasing pressure to act for sexual diversity. He is being asked to order the “Pantheonisation” - the internment of a person ...
Our final news round-up of the week looks at the judges for this year’s Rathbones Folio Prize and the poet who has won America’s Got Talent. Rathbones Folio Prize Judges Announced Roger Robinson, the TS Eliot Prize-winning poet, Sinead Gleeson the Irish writer and the novelist Jon McGregor have all been named as the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prizes judges. The Rathbone Prize has a ...
