My 4 year old loves this book and now wants to write her own little book! “ PhoKu (Visual Perspective Haiku) “Her words trickle off the tongue, matching photographs of tranquility to soothe any reader’s soul. This is a book that never leaves my desk. When I am troubled or stressed...
Inspiring a Whole New Generation of Poets: 20th Anniversary of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award Like Adrienne Rich, Louis Simpson, Donald Hall, and Robert Bly, he moved away from his early assumptions about craft, but he did not move as far, and never embraced their middle-aged bi...
The Luftwaffe runs the POW camp, from which the prisoners believe it is not just their right but their duty to escape—while causing as much mischief as possible for their captors. The first half ofThe Great Escapedepicts the planning of the escape, heroic in its ambition, a team effort ...
This week, our poetry news roundup takes a look at the winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Victoria Chang Announced as Winner of 2024 Forward Poetry Prize The poet Victoria Chang has been announced as this year's winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for her...
Thanks to Sarah L Dixon for her hard work on the Quiet Compere tour, 2022. Her planning began early and was thorough and well-detailed; I learnt as early as February that I would be included later in the year, on one of the virtual sessions … and this came to fruition in August whe...
We have an exceptional team! I don’t think it would have been the success it was without everyone’s contributions and planning. It was probably our biggest event this year as a Year 2 team and I look forward to many more in the future!
People typically say “new year, new me” to signify the fresh start that a new year brings. But it goes without saying that we don’t just magically transform into new beings every January 1st. #2024, #GoalSetting, #Lifestyle, #NewYear, #Planning Read more 06/02/2024 Lifestyle ...
Next year, the poem will be relevant because of another Black body dropped. And it’s not because I was at all prescient when I wrote that poem, or any of the poems in my new collection. It’s because the conditions that give rise to these poems have not changed, and—all recent ...
I look forward to them appearing each year. Usually there are nine blooms, this year it was just eight, here are five of them. I suspect my grandfather had them in his garden when I was living with them during the war. I love the colour but also have a strong emotional attachment to...
And in this year subjected to the world pandemic The search for solace more frenetic Let poetry spread its special balm Troubled minds restored to calm Ken Fisher Contemporary Issues,Events,Poetry1 So Have you noticed how often People use the word ‘so’?