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Poetry newslog April 2005
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January 18, 2006
Eppel anthology
John Eppel’s new anthology Songs my Country Taught Me. Selected Poems 1965-2005 was launched today at the Poetry International workshop in Harare, our Zimbabwean editor writes. Songs my Country Taught Me is published by Weaver Press.
April 20, 2005
C.K. Williams wins Lilly Award
American poet C.K. Williams has been named this year’s recipient of the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, AP reports. The Lilly award was established in 1986 by Ruth Lilly, the drug company philanthropist, who later gave Poetry magazine a $ 100 million bequest.
April 18, 2005
American Life in Poetry
Ted Kooser, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has been appointed to a second one-year term as the U.S. poet laureate, writes the New York Times. The poet intends to use his term to offer a free weekly poem to U.S. newspapers. All poems can be read on the program’s website, American Life in Poetry.
April 14, 2005
Julia Darling, 1956-2005
British poet, playwright and novelist Julia Darling has died on April 13 of cancer at the age of 48. In 2003, Darling was awarded the Northern Rock Foundation writer’s award, the largest annual literary award in England, writes The Guardian in an obituary.
April 13, 2005
Pete Doherty at poetry gala
Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty is to perform his own poetry at a Scottish festival (20-29 May) celebrating Robert Burns, the BBC reports. The controversial former Libertines front man is among headline acts at the Burns An’ A’ That! event in Ayrshire on May 28, along with Lou Reed. Perhaps better known for running into trouble with the police and his spiralling drug habit, Doherty is also a published poet who won the opportunity to work with The British Council in Russia at the age of 16.
April 9, 2005
Verse for Charles and Camilla
British poet laureate Andrew Motion has commemorated the wedding of Camilla Parker Bowles to Prince Charles in a new poem titled 'Spring Wedding'. The poem can be read on the website of the BBC, which also features an audio version.
April 9, 2005
Poets respond to Astley
Bloodaxe publisher Neil Astley recently caused a stir with his StAnza lecture, in which he accused British poetry publishers and critics alike of shutting out talented newcomers, in particular women poets and those from ethnic minorities. Guardian asked ten poets to respond.
April 6, 2005
Griffin shortlist
The shortlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 has been announced. The annual award, worth C$100.000, is the most lucrative prize to be awarded to the two best books of poetry in English (one Canadian, one international), published anywhere in the world in the last year. On the international shortlist are Fanny Howe (On the Ground), Michael Symmons Roberts (Corpus), Matthew Rohrer (A Green Light) and Charles Simic (Selected Poems: 1963-2003). The Canadian shortlist consists of Roo Borson (Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida), George Bowering (Changing on the Fly) and Don McKay (Camber).
April 5, 2005
Kooser wins Pulitzer
The 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been awarded to Ted Kooser, current poet laureate of the United States, for his collection Delights & Shadows, writes the New York Times. (registration required).
April 3, 2005
‘Verse broadens mind’
Psychologists at Dundee and St Andrews universities have found that poetry generated far more eye movement (associated with deeper thought) than other types of texts. Preliminary studies using brain imaging technology also showed greater levels of cerebral activity when people listened to poems being read aloud, the Scotsman reports. "Dr Jane Stabler, a literature expert at St Andrews University and a member of the research group, believes poetry may stir latent preferences in the brain for rhythm and rhymes that develop during childhood."
April 1, 2005
Poems in the Waiting Room
‘Poems in the Waiting Room’, a project promoting "the healing powers of poetry", according to the BBC, is now distributing quarterly poetry pamphlets to more than 3,000 GPs’ waiting rooms in the UK. "The themes of poems are consciously positive," says Michael Lee, the man behind the project.
Export ban for Blake’s art
British art galleries and collectors are being asked to find £8.8m for 19 watercolours by William Blake, in an attempt to keep them in the UK, the BBC reports. The British government has put a temporary export ban on the works in question, ‘Blair’s Grave’, designed to illustrate the long poem ‘The Grave’ by Scottish poet Robert Blair.
Eppel anthology
C.K. Williams wins Lilly Award
American Life in Poetry
Julia Darling, 1956-2005
Pete Doherty at poetry gala
Verse for Charles and Camilla
Poets respond to Astley
Griffin shortlist
Kooser wins Pulitzer
‘Verse broadens mind’
Poems in the Waiting Room
Export ban for Blake’s art
April 27, 2005Eppel anthology
John Eppel’s new anthology Songs my Country Taught Me. Selected Poems 1965-2005 was launched today at the Poetry International workshop in Harare, our Zimbabwean editor writes. Songs my Country Taught Me is published by Weaver Press.
April 20, 2005
C.K. Williams wins Lilly Award
American poet C.K. Williams has been named this year’s recipient of the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, AP reports. The Lilly award was established in 1986 by Ruth Lilly, the drug company philanthropist, who later gave Poetry magazine a $ 100 million bequest.
April 18, 2005
American Life in Poetry
Ted Kooser, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has been appointed to a second one-year term as the U.S. poet laureate, writes the New York Times. The poet intends to use his term to offer a free weekly poem to U.S. newspapers. All poems can be read on the program’s website, American Life in Poetry.
April 14, 2005
Julia Darling, 1956-2005
British poet, playwright and novelist Julia Darling has died on April 13 of cancer at the age of 48. In 2003, Darling was awarded the Northern Rock Foundation writer’s award, the largest annual literary award in England, writes The Guardian in an obituary.
April 13, 2005
Pete Doherty at poetry gala
Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty is to perform his own poetry at a Scottish festival (20-29 May) celebrating Robert Burns, the BBC reports. The controversial former Libertines front man is among headline acts at the Burns An’ A’ That! event in Ayrshire on May 28, along with Lou Reed. Perhaps better known for running into trouble with the police and his spiralling drug habit, Doherty is also a published poet who won the opportunity to work with The British Council in Russia at the age of 16.
April 9, 2005
Verse for Charles and Camilla
British poet laureate Andrew Motion has commemorated the wedding of Camilla Parker Bowles to Prince Charles in a new poem titled 'Spring Wedding'. The poem can be read on the website of the BBC, which also features an audio version.
April 9, 2005
Poets respond to Astley
Bloodaxe publisher Neil Astley recently caused a stir with his StAnza lecture, in which he accused British poetry publishers and critics alike of shutting out talented newcomers, in particular women poets and those from ethnic minorities. Guardian asked ten poets to respond.
April 6, 2005
Griffin shortlist
The shortlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 has been announced. The annual award, worth C$100.000, is the most lucrative prize to be awarded to the two best books of poetry in English (one Canadian, one international), published anywhere in the world in the last year. On the international shortlist are Fanny Howe (On the Ground), Michael Symmons Roberts (Corpus), Matthew Rohrer (A Green Light) and Charles Simic (Selected Poems: 1963-2003). The Canadian shortlist consists of Roo Borson (Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida), George Bowering (Changing on the Fly) and Don McKay (Camber).
April 5, 2005
Kooser wins Pulitzer
The 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been awarded to Ted Kooser, current poet laureate of the United States, for his collection Delights & Shadows, writes the New York Times. (registration required).
April 3, 2005
‘Verse broadens mind’
Psychologists at Dundee and St Andrews universities have found that poetry generated far more eye movement (associated with deeper thought) than other types of texts. Preliminary studies using brain imaging technology also showed greater levels of cerebral activity when people listened to poems being read aloud, the Scotsman reports. "Dr Jane Stabler, a literature expert at St Andrews University and a member of the research group, believes poetry may stir latent preferences in the brain for rhythm and rhymes that develop during childhood."
April 1, 2005
Poems in the Waiting Room
‘Poems in the Waiting Room’, a project promoting "the healing powers of poetry", according to the BBC, is now distributing quarterly poetry pamphlets to more than 3,000 GPs’ waiting rooms in the UK. "The themes of poems are consciously positive," says Michael Lee, the man behind the project.
Export ban for Blake’s art
British art galleries and collectors are being asked to find £8.8m for 19 watercolours by William Blake, in an attempt to keep them in the UK, the BBC reports. The British government has put a temporary export ban on the works in question, ‘Blair’s Grave’, designed to illustrate the long poem ‘The Grave’ by Scottish poet Robert Blair.
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