Blogs Posts in Poets category; 280 blog posts

Poet Kemal zer wins Golden Orange award

Held by the Antalya Culture Art Foundation, or AKSAV, with contributions by the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, the award went to "Temmuz İçin Yaralı Semah," a poetry book by Özer published by Yordam Publi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Poet Nikki Giovanni mellows with new book about love

In her new book, Bicycles, poet Nikki Giovanni attempts to clean up the messy business of love. Big and nebulous and hard to pin down, love in Giovanni's hands becomes diminutive, tidy, and elegant, like the curve of the neck of a bottle of [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Selected Poems, By Derek Walcott

Born on St Lucia in 1930, Derek Walcott is – remarkably – one of two Nobel Prize-winners to hail from the tiny Caribbean speck that inspires some of the past century's most splendidly eloquent lyric verse. (The other is economis [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Calling all Brummie poets

BUDDING poets are being urged to turn to verse to pass on love messages on Valentine’s Day. Birmingham’s Pavilions shopping centre has launched a poetry pod which will be open tomorrow and Saturday for future Tennysons and Words [...]

Posted On : Feb, 12 2009 | Comments : 0

Nigerian poet to attend Dubai Poetry Festival

Wole Soyinka, the first African writer and poet from Nigeria to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, has confirmed his participation at the opening ceremony of the Dubai International Poetry Festival (DIPF). More than 100 reg [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

In celebration of the farmer poet

Where are today’s farmer poets?” asks blogger Ben Myers in today’s Guardian. Robert Burns was “actually a farmer who wrote his best work at night in his but’n'ben after a day’s hard toil in the soil,&rdqu [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

David Robson: Bay is poet laureate of herb world

For the past two weeks, we’ve looked at 2009 award-winning plants. This week, we look at the 2009 Herb of the Year.This year, the International Herb Society designated Bay Laurel as the winner.The plant goes by either name separately, [...]

Posted On : Jan, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Reflections of a Kurdish poet -- Part II

This interview was originally conducted by journalist Aziz Kaikhosrawi in the first days of year 1990; it was to be published in the Kurdish magazine Sirwa and then published in Iranian Kurdistan.At that time. The Iranian official in charg [...]

Posted On : Jan, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Dirty pretty thing

Since his death in a Marseille hospital in 1891, aged 37, the French poet and erstwhile enfant terrible Arthur Rimbaud has been virtually canonised as a pioneer of modernism, revered successively by symbolists and decadents, dadaists and su [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Poet, author and actor say mysterious literary scene records...

FOR 40 years he chronicled the insights and observations of Hampstead’s literary scene, but never allowed a soul to see his records.Now the death of the Belsize Park recluse John Rhodes has stirred some of the area’s best-known [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Closing one chapter in his life, looking forward to what's n...

When Stephen Dunn writes he's not thinking about money or fame, even though writing's brought him both. The poet doesn't have a path or goal in mind - he just writes, trying, as he says, to "find language for what we're not yet articul [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Pneumonia claims Mansour Rahbani at 83

Renowned Lebanese composer Mansour Rahbani died Tuesday following a bout of pneumonia, leaving a legacy of innovation in the music and theater of Lebanon and the wider Arab world. He was 83. For much of his career, Rahbani was known for hi [...]

Posted On : Jan, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Some of the best poets never wrote a word

SIR – Wendy Cope (Letters, January 10) may write her poems, but the epics of Homer drew on orally transmitted poetry. The Psalms, Beowulf and the Finnish national epic The Kalevala all originated in oral composition. The reason there [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Turkey to restore poets citizenship

ISTANBUL // In a sign of a new willingness to come to terms with the more difficult chapters of its recent past, Turkey has decided to restore citizenship to Nazim Hikmet, one of the country’s greatest poets, almost half a century aft [...]