Yesterday, our son Nadim had the poems he wrote when he was four published by Walker Books. His book, Take Off Your Brave, is vibrantly illustrated by Yasmeen Ismail and introduced by writer, poet, and teacher Kate Clanchy. It is Kate who we must thank for setting the book’s publication in motion: she first shared his poems on Twitter just over a year ago, and her warm and enthusiastic followers generously appreciated his work. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-07 03:44:48 UTC ]
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Naomi Shihab Nye and Sandeep Parmar are to judge this year's £5,000 Ledbury Poetry Prize for Second Collections. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-16 17:17:24 UTC ]
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Elliott & Thompson has acquired The Heeding, a sequence of poems by Rob Cowen, with illustrations by Nick Hayes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-16 01:02:11 UTC ]
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Macmillan Children’s Books has landed a new poetry anthology from bestselling curator and writer Allie Esiri. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-11 11:42:50 UTC ]
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New issue, dedicated to work by current and former prisoners, provokes uproar after it emerges one poet has served time for child pornography offencesThe US’s prestigious Poetry magazine has doubled down on its decision to publish a poem by a convicted sex offender as part of a special edition... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-02-03 16:08:52 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury is to publish Starry Night, Blurry Dreams, a debut collection of graphic poetry by Henn Kim. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-01 14:31:00 UTC ]
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Broadcaster James Naughtie will chair the 30th Forward Prizes jury where he will be joined by Leontia Flynn, Pascale Petit and Shivanee Ramlochan alongside critic Tristram Fane Saunders. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-26 18:12:12 UTC ]
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Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic. Guest host Eddie Glaude is joined by poet Natasha Trethewey on Episode 145 of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-12-23 09:48:22 UTC ]
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David Constantine is to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, for his "humane" work spanning 11 collections. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 12:08:33 UTC ]
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The poet, whose acceptance speech will also be released on Monday, will publish Winter Recipes from the Collective in 2021Nobel laureate Louise Glück is set to publish her first poetry collection in seven years in 2021 – her first since becoming the 16th female winner of the literature... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-12-07 11:00:36 UTC ]
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My introduction to contemporary poets was a trial by fire. Here’s what I learned along the way. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-04 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Pamela Sneed’s book powerfully recalls the contributions and leadership of lesbians during the height of the AIDS crisis. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-11-18 20:38:22 UTC ]
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This morning, Publishers Marketplace reported that two-time Booker Prize winner and historical fiction supremo Hilary Mantel has a new short story collection on the horizon. Learning to Talk, which will be released by Holt at some point next year, is billed as “a collection of loosely... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-18 18:07:12 UTC ]
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“African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song,” edited by Kevin Young, contains an overwhelming amount of variety and history. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-11-10 20:51:39 UTC ]
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2020 WORKED HARD to be one of the worst years in recent memory, but for readers of Native American literature, this era is proving to be among the most exciting in the history of Indigenous writing, especially for poetry. To wit: Joy Harjo has just begun her second term as poet laureate of the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-11-09 18:00:17 UTC ]
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Trapeze has signed a collection of poems on motherhood, edited by Ana Sampson, including work from classic poets such as Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as new voices Nikita Gill and Kate Baer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-08 17:03:33 UTC ]
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Journalist Maria Hinojosa talks about her memoir "Once I Was You," and how a childhood trauma triggered her interest in immigration reporting. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-10-31 16:00:33 UTC ]
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Black & White Publishing has acquired Burns for Every Day of the Year from Robert Burns expert Dr Pauline Mackay. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-23 10:57:29 UTC ]
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Her new graphic memoir, “We Saw Scenery,” is based on old diaries she found three years ago: “I wrote down everything.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
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This has been an exciting month for Kaveh Akbar. Earlier this month, the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf was named poetry editor of The Nation, a glittering position once held by writers like Langston Hughes, Anne Sexton, and William B. Yeats. There’s much to look forward to from Akbar,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-09-29 14:00:33 UTC ]
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Kansas City, Mo.–based Andrews McMeel Publishing is seeing strong sales despite disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic—and poetry has a whole lot to do with it. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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