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Poetry newslog January 2006
June 08, 2006
Christopher Logue wins Whitbread prize
Christopher Logue with the fifth and penultimate instalment of hiscelebrated account of the Iliad, Cold Calls, has won the Poetrycategory of the Whitbread prize.
Source: The Whitbread Prize
January 2, 2006
Poet’s Home to Be Opened to Public
The 3-bedroomed Cambridgeshire cottage in which John Clare lived is to be turned into a literary, cultural and countryside resource centre. Known as ‘the peasant poet’ because of his illiterate background, Clare became an overnight sensation, aged 26, when his collection Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery was published in 1820. Unfortunately his subsequent collections failed to capture the public’s attention and he ended his days in a lunatic asylum.
Source: Independent Newspaper
January 1, 2006
The Emperor’s New Verses
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan have made public eight poems they wrote in 2005, five by the Emperor and three by his wife. The subjects of the poems include a state visit to Saipan and their daughter prior to her wedding to a government employee. The poems are written in the Waka form which was developed by Japanese court aristocrats in the sixth century; a poem usually consists of 31 syllables in a five-line pattern of 5-7-5-7-7.
Source: Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge
December 29, 2005
Poetry.org controversy
A nonprofit Illinois foundation “committed to a vigorous presence of poetry in our culture” charges that an Iowa-based internet firm has “squatted” on a key section of cyberspace: poetry.org. A federal lawsuit filed by the Poetry Foundation in Chicago accuses Afan Ottenheimer, Davi Ottenheimer and Jeonet, their Iowa City company, of trademark infringement. Court papers say the poetry.org domain name, which was first used by the Iowa-created Electronic Poetry Review, has been improperly seized by Jeonet, creator of the poetry review's Website.
Source: Topix.net
December 21, 2005
H.C. ten Berge wins Dutch PC Hooft prize
In the Netherlands, poet H.C. ten Berge has been awarded the prestigiousPC Hooft prize for his entire oeuvre. Johannes Cornelis ten Berge (Alkmaar1938) debuted in 1964 with the collection Poolsneeuw.The prize,worth 57,000 euros, is awarded annually to a prose writer, poet oressayist.
Source: Dutch Newspaper NRC Handelsblad
Christopher Logue wins Whitbread prize
Poet’s Home to Be Opened to Public
The Emperor’s New Verses
Poetry.org controversy
H.C. ten Berge wins Dutch PC Hooft prize
January 4, 2006Christopher Logue wins Whitbread prize
Christopher Logue with the fifth and penultimate instalment of hiscelebrated account of the Iliad, Cold Calls, has won the Poetrycategory of the Whitbread prize.
Source: The Whitbread Prize
January 2, 2006
Poet’s Home to Be Opened to Public
The 3-bedroomed Cambridgeshire cottage in which John Clare lived is to be turned into a literary, cultural and countryside resource centre. Known as ‘the peasant poet’ because of his illiterate background, Clare became an overnight sensation, aged 26, when his collection Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery was published in 1820. Unfortunately his subsequent collections failed to capture the public’s attention and he ended his days in a lunatic asylum.
Source: Independent Newspaper
January 1, 2006
The Emperor’s New Verses
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan have made public eight poems they wrote in 2005, five by the Emperor and three by his wife. The subjects of the poems include a state visit to Saipan and their daughter prior to her wedding to a government employee. The poems are written in the Waka form which was developed by Japanese court aristocrats in the sixth century; a poem usually consists of 31 syllables in a five-line pattern of 5-7-5-7-7.
Source: Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge
December 29, 2005
Poetry.org controversy
A nonprofit Illinois foundation “committed to a vigorous presence of poetry in our culture” charges that an Iowa-based internet firm has “squatted” on a key section of cyberspace: poetry.org. A federal lawsuit filed by the Poetry Foundation in Chicago accuses Afan Ottenheimer, Davi Ottenheimer and Jeonet, their Iowa City company, of trademark infringement. Court papers say the poetry.org domain name, which was first used by the Iowa-created Electronic Poetry Review, has been improperly seized by Jeonet, creator of the poetry review's Website.
Source: Topix.net
December 21, 2005
H.C. ten Berge wins Dutch PC Hooft prize
In the Netherlands, poet H.C. ten Berge has been awarded the prestigiousPC Hooft prize for his entire oeuvre. Johannes Cornelis ten Berge (Alkmaar1938) debuted in 1964 with the collection Poolsneeuw.The prize,worth 57,000 euros, is awarded annually to a prose writer, poet oressayist.
Source: Dutch Newspaper NRC Handelsblad
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