Started writing, couldn't stop ... poet's daily poems tot up to 1,000!
At the start of the Covid lockdown, Paul Cookson set out to write a poem a day. After the end of lockdown, he just kept going. Now he has published his daily thoughts on Covid, plus Brexit, the NHS, the US election, Russian’s invasion of Ukraine, the Lionesses’ Euros victory, the Queen’s death, the UK government, as well as his observations on many personal, and other national and global incidents...
29th April 2023
Laurie Bolger wins €6,000 Moth poetry prize
Laurie Bolger has won this year’s €6,000 Moth Poetry Prize with her poem ‘Parkland Walk’. The prize was judged by Nobel laureate Louise Glück, who said: “My own preference inclines to the irregular over the regular, to suggestion over assertion, to dissonance over harmony … I respond to poems that s...
29th April 2023
Ada Limón to get second term as US poet laureate in historic move
Ada Limón has been appointed to a two-year second term as the nation's 24th poet laureate – the first time this has happened. The act of Congress establishing the poet laureate position states that th...
24th April 2023
Carolyn Forché, Ilya Kaminsky elected to US Academy of Arts
Poets Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky have been elected to the American Academy of Arts, it has been announced. The Poetry Foundation has said of Forché that she “is perhaps best-known for coining th...
21st April 2023
President Biden quotes Belfast laureate Sinéad Morrissey in Good Friday Agreement speech
The concluding lines of a poem by prize-winning poet Sinéad Morrissey were quoted by US President Joe Biden on Wednesday during his visit to Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agr...
13th April 2023
US poet with tragic back-story wins National Poetry Competition
An American poet with a traumatic family background has won this year’s National Poetry Competition, organised by the Poetry Society. Lee Stockdale won with his poem ‘My Dead Father’s General Store in...
10th April 2023
Poetry magazine appeals for renewed support to stay in business
The editor of the bi-annual poetry magazine Butcher’s Dog has warned that it faces closure after 10 years of publishing unless sales improve. Jo Clement said on Twitter: “With a very heavy heart and a...
1st April 2023
