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Poetry newslog October 2004
January 18, 2006
Mahmoud Darwish wins €100,000 Prins Claus Prize
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish has been awarded the 2004 Prins Claus Prize for his entire oeuvre. The prize is awarded annually by the Dutch Prins Claus Foundation to an artist, writer or cultural organisation in Africa, Latin America, Asia or the Caribean, and is worth 100,000 euros. Darwish has published more than thirty books and is translated into more than thirty-five languages. "In his poetry he draws attention to the consequences of forced migration, and consistently emphasizes the power of beauty in difficult circumstances," the jury report, quoted in NRC Handelsblad, stated.
October 10, 2004
Wallace Stevens Award for Strand
Mark Strand, the former US poet laureate, was named the winner of the $ 100,000 Wallace Stevens Award last Friday, the Chicago Tribune reports.
October 8, 2004
Scotland’s national poet: Queen ‘incorrect’
Edwin Morgan, Scotland’s national poet, has said it was ‘incorrect’ to invite Queen Elizabeth II to open the new Scottish Parliament, the BBC writes. Morgan described the Royal Family as ‘dysfunctional’ and said the opening ceremony should be ‘a Scottish occasion’. One of Morgan’s poems will be read by Liz Lochhead during Saturday’s ceremony, yet at at the same time there will be another gathering, including Irvine Welsh, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman and Iain M Banks, reading The Declaration of Calton Hill, a call for independence organised by the Scottish Socialist Party. The Declaration is reprinted in The Guardian.
October 7, 2004
Poetry guide St Andrews
St Andrews University has launched an online guide to poetry through the ages to coincide with Britain’s national poetry day, The Guardian reports. The website is an initiative of Scottish poet Robert Crawford, also head of the university’s school of English.
Poetry Foundation hands out awards
The Poetry Foundation in Chicago has handed out two new prizes for poetry, as part of a larger plan to promote poetry in the United States, using the $ 100 million Lilly bequest. The "Neglected Masters Award", worth $50,000, for "a significant American poet whose work has been under-recognized", went to New York poet Samuel Menashe (79). The $25,000 Mark Twain Award for humorous poetry was awarded to Billy Collins, the former poet laureate. In the New York Times report of the ceremony, a Menashe poem is reprinted.
October 6, 2004
Kathleen Jamie wins Forward Prize
Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie has been awarded the £10,000 Forward Prize for her collection The Tree House. It is only the third time in the Forward prizes’ 13-year history that the prize has been awarded to a woman, writes The Guardian. The £5,000Felix Dennis prize for best first collection went to Leontia Flynn for These Days, and Daljit Nagra won the £1,000 Forward prize for best single poem with ‘Look We Have Coming To Dover!’.
October 1, 2004
Poetry collection donated
Book collector Raymond Danowski has donated his 60,000 volume poetry library to the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University. According to the New York Times, the Danowski collection includes rare volumes by T. S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams and James Merrill, among many others. The director of special collections and archives at the Library called it "the largest English-language poetry collection ever put together by an individual".
Arun Kolatkar, 1932-2004
Renowned Indian poet Arun Kolatkar died on September 25 at his brother’s home of intestinal cancer, at the age of 72. Kolatkar, who wrote poems both in Marathi and English, won the Commonwealth Prize in 1977 for his English collection Jejuri, writes ExpressIndia. (via Kitabkhana)
Michael Donaghy, 1954-2004
Irish-American poet Michael Donaghy, who died on September 16 aged 50, was "one of the most gifted and intriguing poets of his generation", writes the Daily Telegraph in an obituary. Donaghy won the 1989 Whitbread prize for poetry and the Forward Prize in 2000. In The Independent, Don Paterson and other writers give an appreciation of the man and his work.
Mahmoud Darwish wins €100,000 Prins Claus Prize
Wallace Stevens Award for Strand
Scotland’s national poet: Queen ‘incorrect’
Poetry guide St Andrews
Poetry Foundation hands out awards
Kathleen Jamie wins Forward Prize
Poetry collection donated
Arun Kolatkar, 1932-2004
Michael Donaghy, 1954-2004
October 13, 2004Mahmoud Darwish wins €100,000 Prins Claus Prize
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish has been awarded the 2004 Prins Claus Prize for his entire oeuvre. The prize is awarded annually by the Dutch Prins Claus Foundation to an artist, writer or cultural organisation in Africa, Latin America, Asia or the Caribean, and is worth 100,000 euros. Darwish has published more than thirty books and is translated into more than thirty-five languages. "In his poetry he draws attention to the consequences of forced migration, and consistently emphasizes the power of beauty in difficult circumstances," the jury report, quoted in NRC Handelsblad, stated.
October 10, 2004
Wallace Stevens Award for Strand
Mark Strand, the former US poet laureate, was named the winner of the $ 100,000 Wallace Stevens Award last Friday, the Chicago Tribune reports.
October 8, 2004
Scotland’s national poet: Queen ‘incorrect’
Edwin Morgan, Scotland’s national poet, has said it was ‘incorrect’ to invite Queen Elizabeth II to open the new Scottish Parliament, the BBC writes. Morgan described the Royal Family as ‘dysfunctional’ and said the opening ceremony should be ‘a Scottish occasion’. One of Morgan’s poems will be read by Liz Lochhead during Saturday’s ceremony, yet at at the same time there will be another gathering, including Irvine Welsh, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman and Iain M Banks, reading The Declaration of Calton Hill, a call for independence organised by the Scottish Socialist Party. The Declaration is reprinted in The Guardian.
October 7, 2004
Poetry guide St Andrews
St Andrews University has launched an online guide to poetry through the ages to coincide with Britain’s national poetry day, The Guardian reports. The website is an initiative of Scottish poet Robert Crawford, also head of the university’s school of English.
Poetry Foundation hands out awards
The Poetry Foundation in Chicago has handed out two new prizes for poetry, as part of a larger plan to promote poetry in the United States, using the $ 100 million Lilly bequest. The "Neglected Masters Award", worth $50,000, for "a significant American poet whose work has been under-recognized", went to New York poet Samuel Menashe (79). The $25,000 Mark Twain Award for humorous poetry was awarded to Billy Collins, the former poet laureate. In the New York Times report of the ceremony, a Menashe poem is reprinted.
October 6, 2004
Kathleen Jamie wins Forward Prize
Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie has been awarded the £10,000 Forward Prize for her collection The Tree House. It is only the third time in the Forward prizes’ 13-year history that the prize has been awarded to a woman, writes The Guardian. The £5,000Felix Dennis prize for best first collection went to Leontia Flynn for These Days, and Daljit Nagra won the £1,000 Forward prize for best single poem with ‘Look We Have Coming To Dover!’.
October 1, 2004
Poetry collection donated
Book collector Raymond Danowski has donated his 60,000 volume poetry library to the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University. According to the New York Times, the Danowski collection includes rare volumes by T. S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams and James Merrill, among many others. The director of special collections and archives at the Library called it "the largest English-language poetry collection ever put together by an individual".
Arun Kolatkar, 1932-2004
Renowned Indian poet Arun Kolatkar died on September 25 at his brother’s home of intestinal cancer, at the age of 72. Kolatkar, who wrote poems both in Marathi and English, won the Commonwealth Prize in 1977 for his English collection Jejuri, writes ExpressIndia. (via Kitabkhana)
Michael Donaghy, 1954-2004
Irish-American poet Michael Donaghy, who died on September 16 aged 50, was "one of the most gifted and intriguing poets of his generation", writes the Daily Telegraph in an obituary. Donaghy won the 1989 Whitbread prize for poetry and the Forward Prize in 2000. In The Independent, Don Paterson and other writers give an appreciation of the man and his work.
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