Today in our news round-up we look at the Moth Poetry Prize and Seamus Heaney as the face of NI branding for its upcoming centenary. Moth Irish Poetry Prize Now Open for 2020 Entries The annual poetry competition run by The Moth; an Irish poetry magazine, is now offering one of the biggest prizes in poetry. The prize is given for a single poem. ...
Today in our poetry news round-up, we look at the badly neglected birthplace of a poet, the 2020 winners of the Speculative Poetry Awards and the Scottish Writers who have received grants for new projects. Birthplace of Tamil Poet in Poor State of Neglect In 1984, the ASI excavated an ancient mound that is often referred to as Kambarmedu. Geological surveys of the area ...
We begin the week on My Poetic Side with a look at the Kazakh Museum dedicated to a poet. We also look at the winner of this year’s Young Writer Award. Museum Dedicated to Abai Kunanbayev Fascinates Visitors This year marks the 175th anniversary of the birth of Abai Kunanbayev, the philosopher, educator, poet and founding father of Kazakh literature. There have been many ...
Our final poetry news round-up of the week takes a look at a letter written by Elizabeth Barratt Browning that will be auctioned this month, and the Indian poet who has died aged 72. Letter Written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning up for Auction A letter, written by the poet Elizabeth Browning, in which she describes her lonely quarantine, is to go up for ...
Today's poetry news round-up looks at the Lake District house that was the home of two poets that is still up for sale, the WB Yeats letters that fetched a significant amount at auction and the winner of this year's Ruth Rendell Award. Former Lake District Home of Two Famous Poets Sees Price Cut of £50,000 Greta Hall, the stunning Grade I country house ...
