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 ...
Today"s news round-up takes a look at the winners of a couple of poetry awards. We also look at another National Poetry Day celebration that is taking itself online. Winners of the ACU Prize for Poetry and Blake Poetry Prize 2020 The winners of two major poetry prizes have been announced in Canberra and they are both from the ACT region. Geoff Page, who is ...
Today on My Poetic Side we look at the annual Dove Cottage poetry event and the winner of this year’s Montreal International Poetry Prize Dove Cottage Goes Digital Dove Cottage, the former home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy is going digital for the first time. On 1st October, in honour of National Poetry Day, the cottage will be playing ...
Today on our poetry news round-up we look at the controversy surrounding the demolition of Rabindranath Tagore’s house wall, the Pashto Poet honoured and the tribute to Edward Lear. Controversy Sparked by Demolition of Rabindranath Tagore’s Home in Puri Students and heritage activists in the Odisha temple town of Puri are very unhappy by a recent decision made by the government there. They have ...
