Poetry News

BOOK REVIEW / Poetry lovers tricked by a drowned manuscript: Samarkand - Amin Maalouf, Tr.

Topekan Peg Penry has just published her fifth book of poetry, this one a collection of religious verse she has written through the years.

A DYSLEXIC youngster has won first prize in a national poetry competition. Brigid Davidson, from Chipping Norton, won first place in the Charley Boorman Poetry Competition, organised by Dyslexia Action as part of Dyslexia Awareness Week.

Next week, the 12-time Grammy Award-winning songstress will introduce a jewelry collection called The Barber's Daughters.

Steven Berkoff is best known for his work in the theatre as a writer, director and performer.

Big Sur poet and artist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld can often be found on the cliffs of Big Sur reading poetry to a resident condor.

The Poetry Society of New Hampshire is sponsoring two contests for New Hampshire students, one for Grades 1 - 8 and one for High School.

About once a month, we'll ask two booksellers a ' one independent and one chain a ' for current best-sellers. The specific booksellers will change every month.

A new site designed for young writers, YARN will debut this winter, and to kick the site off with a bang, they're asking for input from teens with a poetry contest inspired by New Moon: Theme of poem: The Moon Deadline: Nov.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE The poetry of Allama Muhammad Iqbal resounded in the Government College University on Monday as the varsity's music society held an event to pay tribute to the national poet.

YOUNGSTERS dressed up as old and new nursery rhyme characters to round off a special week.

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A lifetime of scholarship meets acerbic wit in "Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie" the newest volume of poetry from local writer Philip Appleman.

Asghar Wajahat's "Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya O Janmyai Nai", presented by SRC Repertory at its auditorium this past week, is a tour de force.

PATRICK McManus from Our Lady Queen of Peace, Dunmurry is celebrating not only his overall win in the inaugural McIntyre Poetry Awards, but Patrick can now proudly view his winning poem alongside other finalists in the all new publication 'Primary Poetry for All' which has just gone on sale at Ireland's leading bookstore Eason.

A.E. Stallings is an author of a poem entitled "Sine Qua Non." The title is in Latin, and translates to "without which not" which means something that is indispensible, necessary.

Another good night at Poetry at theGRV on Sunday evening. Each poet was distinctive - from Morgan Downie and his island poems to Tessa Ransford, who read a miscellany of work from several decades, to Robert Alan Jamieson, whose commentary on 'the language question', illustrated starkly in the poems, made for a thought provoking and memorable set.

Like Fiona Farrell, Bernadette Hall spent six months in Ireland courtesy of the Rathcoola Fellowship, and like Farrell, she has produced a superb new collection of poems that feed off the Irish experience.

The Beat Generation poets got co-opted by the mainstream so quickly back in the '50s that it evidently made Allen Ginsberg's hair frizz up and fall out.

Spoken word events are so prolific in the Pioneer Valley and beyond, all you need to do is flip over one of the turning leaves and you'll find a poem.