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Edward Lear
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear
The Poetry Café in Covent Garden is currently celebrating Lear's 200th Birthday with an exhibition of work from 40 artists. Until 8 June.
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Happy Birthday Edward Lear - 200 in 2012. An illustrated tribute exhibited in the Poetry Café until 8 June.
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May news
14 Poem of the week: Chales Dickens's 'The Fine Old English Gentleman' (Guardian)
12 Edward Lear - the master of glorious nonsense (Telegraph)
11 Norwich wins UNESCO City of Literature status (Guardian)
6 Robert Browning - a poet worth remembering (Guardian)
4 Taliban poetry book denounced by former British commander (Guardian)
3 Sasha Dugdale announced as new Editor of Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT)
3 Derek Walcott: 'The Oxford poetry job would have been too much work' (Guardian)
2 First edition of Robert Burns' poetry fetches £40,000 at auction (STV)
2 PS Member Josephine Corcoran wins Stafford Poetry Comp. PS members Pat Winslow, Chris North, Peter Wallis, Camilla Lambert included in runners-up. (Heard Music)
1 Poetry Society member Kaddy Benyon selected as a Granta New Poet alongside Sean Borodale (Granta)
1 Poetry Society member Lucienne Kim Flavell Highly Commended in 'International Horror' poetry comp (Crawley Observer)
1 Burnside, Duffy, Boast, on shortlists for Scotland's largest literary prize (Northings.com)
1 Good news for Aldeburgh Poetry Festival (Poetry Trust)
April news
30 Simon Armitage poems carved into stone (BBC)
30 Carol Ann Duffy to write versions of fairytales for new stage show at Xmas (BBC)
30 Samuel Johnson's advice to a posh boy (Spectator)
29 Rabindranath Tagore: the poet at 150 (Guardian)
27 US and UK Laureates on being public face for a 'solitary act' (PBS Newshour - video)
27 A Life in Writing: Jackie Kay (Guardian)
27 Laureate commissions poems for Jubilee year (Guardian)
27 Conversation with W. S. Di Piero, Winner of the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (PBS Newshour)
27 Why Afghan women risk death to write poetry (N Y Times)
26 Larkin - out loud (New Yorker)
26 British Library publishes 30 years of Ted Hughes letters (Culture24)
26 Catholic poets have a firm place in poetry tradition (Georgia Bulletin)
26 Doctor Who and David Walliams included in list of readers narrating poetry shorts for Disney (Sun)
25 The Foyle Alumni Summer Internship Programme 2012 opens for applications
24 Poetry Society SLAMbassador winner Megan Beech ALSO wins the Poetry Rivals UK Slam (Poetry Rivals)
23 The poetry of Wislawa Szymborska: 'it was love at first read' (Huffington Post)
23 Gillian Clarke reads her Jubilee poem on Radio 4 Today programme (BBC)
22 WS Merwin: poetry is "about hearing something you never heard before" (Chronicle)
22 100,000 poems to be dropped on South Bank (London SE1)
22 Peter Riley on the problem of poetry prize culture (Fortnightly Review)
19 Charles Simic: Did our Founding Fathers read while sitting on their chamber pots? (N Y Review of Books)
19 Former Poetry Society SLAM poet one of 12 poets chosen to meet Olympic long jumper (Harrow Observer)
19 How Scottish was Byron? (SPL blog)
19 Helen Mort on poetry's mind-altering capacities (blog)
18 Rowyda Amin wins Venture Award for poetry pamphlets. Sarah Westcott is runner-up (flipped eye)
17 Poets required for London 2012 (BBC)
17 Poetry Parnassus names announced (Guardian)
17 PS Member Kaddy Benyon and Luke Heeley have won this year’s Crashaw Prize for Poetry (Salt blog)
16 Ted Hughes' brother's memoir "give clues as to the writer's inspiration for his early poems." (BBC)
16 "Audience figures for Poetry Archive prove what a good friend new technologies have been to poetry" (Guardian)
16 Gwyneth Lewis on the making of 'Clytemnestra' (Guardian)
13 Andrew Motion: My hero John Keats (Guardian)
13 Hugo Williams: I’ll write about my days on dialysis (Islington Tribune)
10 Bob Cooper wins Lumen/Camden Poetry Comp. PS member Eleanor Vale commended (Ward Wood Publishing)
10 Hit Günter Grass with poetry, not a travel ban (Guardian)
10 Reed Whittemore, former US Poet Laureate, dies at 92 (NY Times)
10 Harsent and O'Brien on shortlist for $65k Griffin Poetry Prize (Griffin Trust)
10 Poet Laureate marks 400th anniversary of execution of Pendle witches (Guardian)
10 Inua Ellams: "Read until you bleed" (ideastap.com)
9 Are you in a poetry tribe? (Fuselit)
9 Tagore was a passionate political author. Sadly, literary writers today seem to have no time for politics (Guardian)
8 Günter Grass barred from Israel over poem (Guardian)
7 Motion: what it was like to be Poet Laureate - video (BBC)
6 Kathleen Jamie: "I've sat down and written 30,000 words of drivel and then thought, what am I doing? I could do this in a 20-line poem." (Guardian)
4 Tim Wells: "The internet is alive with poetry. After porn it's the biggest thing on there. And like porn, much of it is awful" (Morning Star)
2 Interview with Stephen Dobyns (New Yorker)
2 How vandalism can turn pupils onto poetry (Guardian)
March news
30 On the rules of literary fiction for men and women (NYT)
29 Ian McMillan and Alice Oswald on Forward judging panel (Bookseller)
29 Allison McVety wins National with poem about Virginia Woolf (Guardian)
29 'A Family Affair': Poets Old And New Celebrate National Poetry Competition Awards (Huffington Post)
29 Pioneering poet Adrienne Rich has died at the age of 82 (Reuters)
28 Linton Kwesi Johnson: Trust between the police and the black community is still broken (Guardian)
27 The Written World: poems to capture the spirit of each competing nation in the Olympics (BBC)
27 Poetry returns to New York's subway (City Room blog)
26 Remembering Szymborska (Sydney Morning Herald)
26 Olympics inspire love poetry across Britain and Ireland (Guardian)
25 In defence of performance poetry (Huffington Post)
23 John Keats: autumnal idealist or trenchant social commentator? (Guardian)
21 Ruth Padel: 'Poetry has a responsibility to look at the world' (Guardian)
21 Poetry Unplugged reviewed (Morning Star)
20 Alice Walker: 'This is the time for poetry' The Atlantic)
20 PS member Chrissie Gittins recording her poems for Poetry Archive (South London Press)
20 The ruthless side of Wordsworth (Guardian)
16 Andrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been very few and far between came back to me' (Guardian)
16 "Our poetic Willetts protest was peaceful – banning a student for it is absurd" (Guardian)
14 Dante's 'Divine Comedy' is offensive says human rights organisation (Guardian)
14 Szymborska's 'erotic' poetry to be published? (The News.pl)
12 Write your name in the stars - Foyle Young Poets Award: now open!
9 Robert Browning: none so great and none so odd (Telegraph)
9 PS members Clare Pollard (runner-up) and Marie Naughton (commended) in Modern Poetry in Translation comp (MPT)
8 Inua Ellams: "...on the number 38 bus with a voice recorder for the Poetry Society a few years ago, asking random people whether they read poetry. I was surprised by how many said yes" (Metro)
7 PS member Lydia Macpherson 3rd in Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize (prnewswire)
6 PS members Kim Moore & Rosie Shepperd among winners of Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Comp (TPB)
5 John Burnside Q&A: "What makes you write poetry?" (Economist)
1 WW1 poet Hedd Wynn's home is saved (BBC)
1 Laureate composes Olympics tribute (Guardian)
February news
27 Lemn Sissay: Are children in care being treated as crash-test dummies? (Guardian)
27 Poetry beyond the cults and enclaves (Fortnightly Review)
23 Part of Dylan Thomas Centre to be turned into business centre for creative excellence (BBC)
22 Alan Brownjohn remembers Peter Porter (TLS)
21 W H Davies's 'final home' could be restored by Christmas (BBC)
20 Dryden's earthy translation of Lucretius (Spectator)
19 Wisława Szymborska's poems examine absence, emptiness (LA Times)
16 Is Amazon destroying or democratising literature? (Forbes)
16 Mad, bad and delightful to know: How Byron became a cultural superstar (Independent)
16 Charlie Brooker's '10 O'Clock Live' poem about The Sun is nothing short of genius (Huffington Post)
16 Friends launch Mary Oliver tribute blog (Galleycat)
15 Chris Preddie, Poetry Society SLAMbassador mentor - "from Finsbury Park to Buckingham Palace" (Guardian)
15 Maya Angelou: 'Barack Obama has done a remarkable job' (Guardian)
14 Love letters of Barrett and Browning sent online on Valentine's Day (Guardian)
13 Magma Poetry Comp: a good result for PS members. Mona Arshi wins, Christopher North 3rd. Jenny Vuglar and Chris Preddle 1st and 2nd in 10-line comp (Magma)
13 Poetry Society member Fawzia Kane on longlist for The OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (Bocas Lit Fest)
10 Writers choose their favourite love poems (Guardian)
9 Syrian poet Adonis condemns 'savage' Homs bombardment (Guardian)
9 Poland's president honours Szymborska at funeral (ajc.com)
7 Michael Rosen: Who owns literacy? (Blog)
7 Crawshaw Prize shortlist includes PS member Kaddy Benyon and former Foyle winner Caleb Klaces (Salt)
5 Basil Payne obituary (Guardian)
4 Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson pens protest poem against library closures (BBC)
4 Dorothea Tanning, painter, sculptor and poet, obituary (Independent)
3 Tess Gallagher: all poets must be survivors (Vancouver Sun)
3 Robert Montgomery: the artist vandalising advertising with poetry (Independent)
3 Haunting Scottish ballads like Tam o' Shanter 'empower' women (BBC)
2 Timothy Donnelly wins $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (Wall Street Journal)
1 Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel winning poet, dies at 88 (New York Times)
1 Fourteen groups share £100,000 in Clore Foundation's Poetry and Literature Awards (Culture24.org)
1 On designing the cover for Larkin's 'Complete Poems' (Creative Review)
January news
31 As neo-fascists claim Ezra Pound, his family says, 'hands off' (Time World)
31 Poet Laureate compared to writers of 'Mills & Boon' (Telegraph)
30 Theodore Enslin obituary (Guardian)
27 Adonis: a life in writing (Guardian)
26 Wanted: poetry to inspire a nine-year-old girl (Telegraph)
25 Celebrate Burns Night and Rabindranath Tagore anniversary with indian haggis (Telegraph)
24 Is the Costa book of the year to go to poetry for the 3rd year running? (Guardian)
23 There's more to Burns Night than haggis and neeps (Scotsman)
23 Tam o' Shanter voted best Burns (BBC)
23 The mystery of poetry editing: from Eliot to Burnside (Telegraph)
20 Andrew Motion reads a poem for his friend WG Sebald (BBC)
20 Meet the author: Carol Ann Duffy (BBC)
20 Meet the author: Matthew Hollis (BBC)
18 What are the most quoted lines of poetry? (Guardian)
17 John Burnside: How poetry can change lives (Telegraph)
16 John Burnside wins TS Eliot Prize (BBC)
13 Dean Atta's poem about Stephen Lawrence goes viral (Guardian)
12 Quentin Blake has an exhibition at the Foundling Museum of works commissioned for hospitals (Telegraph)
12 Armitage "Sometimes there is nothing sweeter in poetry than a deliberate anachronism." (New Statesman)
3 Carol Ann Duffy wins the poetry category of the Costa Book Prize (BBC)
3 OBE for Poetry Society's SLAMbassadors mentor Chris Preddie (Bookseller)
1 Edward Lear's life as an artist is remembered as his bicentenary year begins (Guardian)
December news
31 Geoffrey Hill has been Knighted in the New Year Honours List (Guardian)
31 Welsh poet and playwright Dannie Abse becomes a CBE
31 Author, poet and broadcaster Clive James has been awarded a CBE (Telegraph)
24 Jo Shapcott wins Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (Independent)
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