This week on our Poetry News roundup we look at the one of the longlisted poets for this year’s PEN America Award, the winner of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and The poet inspired walk.
Halyna Kruk Longlisted for the 2025 PEN America Literary Award
Lost in Living, a poetry collection by Halyna Kruk has been nominated for the 2025 PEN America Prize in the category of Translated Poetry. The collection, which was published in 2024 is the 16th book in the series of contemporary poetry from the Ukraine. The poems have been translated from Ukrainian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvina Orlovska.
Writing on Facebook Orlovska wrote how honoured she and her fellow translator were to have made it to the list amongst so many fantastic poets and translators. She also thanked Kruk and the judges as well before congratulating all of the other nominees.
Lost in Living offers readers a look at Kruk’s work from the “pre-invasion” years when like in the Ukraine was much easier. These are poems that Kruk describes as not giving her pain, unlike those about the war, imagery, and tone, together with figurative language are the poets tools used with great artistry.
PEN America is the largest PEN community in existence, this prize is an annual one that is given for a book length translation of poetry, this can be in any language but must be translated into English. The prize is $3000 and has been awarded since 1996.
Newman Prize for Chinese Literature Awarded to Ling Yu
Taiwan poet Ling Yu has been awarded the 2025 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. The award ceremony took place at the University of Oklahoma.
During the ceremony the poet stated that her poetry documented the drastic changes that have taken place in Taiwan over the last 50 years, she expressed her hopes that more women would explore their own creative side and engage in poetry.
In conjunction with the award ceremony The Taiwan Academy in Houton has been collaborating with the University of Oklahoma on an exhibition of modern Taiwanese poetry. The exhibition highlights “Poetry Now” a magazine that is funded by a number of renowned poets including Ling Yu, Tseng Shu-mei and Hsia Yu.
The Newman Prize, which was established in 2008, is a biennial one that is awarded in recognition of an
Walking the New Wordsworth Way
In his 1798 poem The Tables Turned, William Wordsworth said “Come forth into the light of things” – he was talking about the good old-fashioned idea of a walk in nature. As the father of the Romantic poetry movement his was synonymous with the rugged, rolling landscape of the Lake District that inspired his work and that of fellow poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.
Unveiled on 7th April the Wordsworth Way is a new walking route dedicated to the life and work of Wordsworth. Its opening marks the poets 255th Birthday and the route is a combination of pre-existing footpaths that form a 14-mile-long route stretching from Ambleside to Ullswater.
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