Poetry in the News 2010

FEBRUARY

26 Alice Oswald on poetry and performance (Times)

24 Dennis Brutus obituary (Guardian)

23 Stephen Moss: My bid for Oxford poetry glory (Guardian)

22 Shadow Culture Secretary: "It's going to be tough" (Guardian)

20 My Martini time with Auden - Andrew Motion (Times)

18 Nominations open for Oxford Poetry Professor

17 Children's poetry can be successful (Bookseller)

17 Lucille Clifton, first Afro-American poet to win Ruth Lilly Prize, dies (New York Times)

14 Valentine's Day poetry lights up Edinburgh Castle rock (BBC)

13 Carol Ann Duffy reveals her favourite love poems (Telegraph)

11 Carol Ann Duffy to lead another Haiti fundraiser in Edinburgh (Scotsman)

9 John Rety (Camden New Journal)

9 Poetry makes you blush (BBC) 

9 Win Seamus Heaney tickets (Guardian)

8 Ruth Padel: "I'm not in the business of undermining other writers." (Scotsman)

7 Carol Ann Duffy on why she would make a naughty nun.(Times)

6 Pam Ayres - why opportunity still knocks (Telegraph)

2 Poetry Society member (and multi-Foyle winner) Helen Mort wins £1k Cafe Writers Competition. PS member (and 2007 National runner up) Rosemary Norman, is 2nd.
Other PS members in the commended list include Ian McEwen and Lydia Macpherson.

JANUARY

31 Poetry for Haiti review (Huffington Post)

30 Gordon Brown at Haiti poetry fundraiser: "You know that poetry does what ordinary words can never do themselves alone. Instead of narrowing our view of the world, poetry broadens and deepens our understanding." (BBC)

30 It's a great week for poetry, but when is it not? (Erica Wagner, Times)

29 Josephine Hart on how poetry conquered the Costa (Times)

29 Christopher Reid interview (Guardian)

29 Laureate praises Arctic Monkeys for their poetry (Telegraph)

29 "Poetry in the cinema is embarrassing" (Guardian)

28 Poets to hold 'literary Live-Aid' for Haiti (BBC)

27 How much of a sales boost will the Costa give A Scattering? (Bookseller)

27 Christopher Reid's A Scattering wins £30,0000 Costa Prize (Guardian)

27 Simon Armitage's Madeleine McCann poem (Times)

25 Poets for Haiti (Guardian)

25 Girls love a Bard boy (Sun)

24 Nobel Prize winner looking forward to poetry (Times)

23 My father, my hero - Philip Gross (Guardian)

22 The perils of putting poetry on stage (Guardian)

20 Philip Gross talks about The Water Table (Telegraph)

20 Bright Star on Evening Standard film award shortlists (Standard)

19 Philip Gross (2009 Stanza Competition judge) wins £15,000 TS Eliot prize (BBC) 

19 Andrew Motion: the teacher who inspired me (Guardian)

18 My Media / Christopher Reid: "Of specialist poetry mags, Poetry Review, Poetry London, the Rialto and the Long Poem are worth keeping up with." (Guardian)

18 Ruth Lilly, major funder of 'Poetry' magazine and Poetry Foundation, dies (Times Online)

18 Aloud and proud: the new performance poetry, featuring Luke Wright and Ross Sutherland (Independent)

17 My St Lucia: Derek Walcott - (Observer Travel supplement)

16 Gordon Brown and Nelson Mandela name 'Invictus' as favourite poem (Guardian)

15 Canadian Poet P.K. Page dies aged 93 (CBC)

14 Waterstone's: "the book chain's likely future looks as slim as one of those volumes of poetry that you won't find in its celebrity-heavy outlets" (Bookseller)

14 Audio: TS Eliot shortlisted poets  (BBC)

12 TS Eliot shortlist reviewed by Alan Brownjohn (Sunday Times)

12 Hull organises Philip Larkin tourist tour for 25th anniversary of death (Telegraph)

10 Christopher Reid interview (Telegraph)

9 Motion and Geoffrey Hill early possibles for Oxford poetry professor (Telegraph)

8 Too much rap, not enough proper poetry, says former laureate Andrew Motion (Guardian)

4 Christopher Reid wins the Costa Poetry Awards for Scattering (BBC)

1 Don Paterson is awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (Times)

1 Lemn Sissay receives MBE for services to literature. Lemn was a judge of the Foyle Young Poets Awards in 2009 (Telegraph)

1 Harry Chambers editor of Peterloo Poets for 37 years receives MBE for services to poetry (Peterloo)

1 Sir Andrew Motion considers Oxford poetry professor role (Telegraph)