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Poetry newslog February 2006
June 08, 2006
Tim Turnbull wins Fellowship
Tim Turnbull has won a £10,000 Performance PoetryFellowship awarded by the Arts Foundation. He is currently writer inresidence at H.M. Young Offenders Institute, Werrington. His collection,Stranded in Sub-Atomica is published by Donut Press.
Source: The Arts Foundation
January 21, 2006
Irving Layton, Canadian trail blazer, dies
The poet Irving Layton (1912-2006) occupied a unique place in Canadianletters. His flamboyant and aggressive literary stance made an importantcontribution to changing the cultural climate in Canada. He helpedkickstart a veritable revolution in the arts in the post-Second World Warperiod when Canadian writing was still hobbled by a colonial and genteelsensibility, writes Seymour Mayne in The Independent.
January 17, 2006
TS Eliot 2005 Prize Winner Announced
The winner of this year's T S Eliot Prize for the best single-author volumeof poetry published in 2005 is Carol Ann Duffy, for Rapture,published by Picador.
Source: The Poetry Book Society
November 30, 2005
Poetry Archive Launched
The Poetry Archive, an online initiative which allowspeople to listen to poets reading their own work, has launched today.
Source: The Poetry Archive
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 27, 2006Tim Turnbull wins Fellowship
Tim Turnbull has won a £10,000 Performance PoetryFellowship awarded by the Arts Foundation. He is currently writer inresidence at H.M. Young Offenders Institute, Werrington. His collection,Stranded in Sub-Atomica is published by Donut Press.
Source: The Arts Foundation
January 21, 2006
Irving Layton, Canadian trail blazer, dies
The poet Irving Layton (1912-2006) occupied a unique place in Canadianletters. His flamboyant and aggressive literary stance made an importantcontribution to changing the cultural climate in Canada. He helpedkickstart a veritable revolution in the arts in the post-Second World Warperiod when Canadian writing was still hobbled by a colonial and genteelsensibility, writes Seymour Mayne in The Independent.
January 17, 2006
TS Eliot 2005 Prize Winner Announced
The winner of this year's T S Eliot Prize for the best single-author volumeof poetry published in 2005 is Carol Ann Duffy, for Rapture,published by Picador.
Source: The Poetry Book Society
November 30, 2005
Poetry Archive Launched
The Poetry Archive, an online initiative which allowspeople to listen to poets reading their own work, has launched today.
Source: The Poetry Archive
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