December news
20 Jackie Kay: 'My son still throws magic dust on my head before a reading' (Independent)
17 Roger McGough interview (Telegraph)
14 Roger McGough is new President of the Poetry Society (Guardian)
13 Gillian Clarke: TS Eliot Prize is no less honourable for its sponsorship (Guardian)
13 Owen Sheers joins Welsh rugby as poet-in-residence (BBC)
12 Alice Oswald: Why I pulled out of the TS Eliot Prize (Guardian)
10 Should the arts be more selective about sponsors? (Guardian)
9 Ruth Padel: the science of poetry, the poetry of science (Guardian)
9 A Life in Writing - Simon Armitage (Guardian)
9 Evening Standard Editor to chair Costa judges (Bookseller)
8 How Trafalgar Square gets its Christmas Tree and poem (Guardian)
8 John Walsh: without Aurum's help the award could not go ahead (Independent)
8 On poets and patronage (Economist)
8 Can poets afford to worry about prize sponsors? (Guardian)
7 Philip Gross's top 10 writings from the edge of language (Guardian)
7 John Kinsella pulls out of TS Eliot Prize (Guardian)
6 My hero Christopher Logue by Craig Raine (Guardian)
6 Alice Oswald withdraws from TS Eliot Prize over sponsor (Bookseller)
6 Lines from Ted Hughes' 'That Morning' chosen for his memorial at Poets' Corner (Guardian)
5 Margaret Atwood "Thanks to the rise of the internet and of social media, "I would say that reading, as such, has increased" (CBC News)
5 Simon Armitage pays tribute to 'one-off' Ted Hughes (BBC)
5 Rhian Edwards wins 2011 John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry (Literature Wales)
5 National Literacy Trust launches Christmas appeal to buy books for children (Bookseller)
3 Wendy Cope: "I can't die until I've sorted out the filing cabinets" (New Statesman)
3 Christopher Logue obituary (Guardian)
2 Larkin poems on slates at Hull Station (BBC)
November news
30 Stanley Mitchell - finest translator of Eugene Onegin - obituary (Guardian)
30 Daniel Radcliffe set to play Ginsberg (Telegraph)
29 PS Member Diana Pooley 2nd in Troubadour Poetry Prize (coffeehousepoetry)
28 Art Garfunkel's poem for Paul Simon (BBC)
28 Terry Jones wins £5k Bridport Prize. PS members Lindy Barbour, Lesley Saunders, Paul Stephenson, Anna Woodford Highly Commended. (Bridport Prize)
28 Venture Award poetry pamphlet shortlist includes PS members Graham Burchell, Doreen Hinchliffe, David Keyworth, Cat Dickson (flippedeye)
24 The Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award - shortlist includes Jackie Kay, Don Paterson, John Burnside (Saltire Society)
24 Ruth Stone, a poet celebrated late in life, dies at 96 (New York Times)
24 Owen Sheers: "The reason we read poetry is that it has the ability to penetrate both solar plexus and between the eyes, simultaneously, in a way that prose doesn't." (Independent)
22 Peter Reading, who has died aged 65, was a poet whose stark candour and verbal brilliance took the tradition of British miserabilism to new heights (Telegraph)
21 Leeds academy unveils mural of Carol Ann Duffy's Mrs Schofield's GCSE (Guardian)
21 Arundhathi Subramaniam: ‘Poetry has to be crafted, it doesn’t flow’ (Deccan Chronicle)
21 Armitage: e-books to put writers out of business (Telegraph)
21 Michelle Obama unveils programme for young poets (Reuters)
19 We are very sad to report the death of the poet Peter Reading (Bloodaxe)
19 Young poetry in the face of economic adversity (Guardian)
18 Nagra: "Putting into practice the ideas I share with my students helps me as a writer." (Guardian)
18 Heaney receives lifetime achievement award (BBC)
17 Rare Tagore notebook to be sold at auction (Reuters)
17 Nikky Finney wins $10k National Book Award for poetry (BBC)
16 'Tam O'Shanter' depicted on 20m mural (BBC)
16 Can Brian Eno make poetry cool? (Telegraph)
15 Is there such a thing as working class British poetry? (National Poetry Month)
15 Duffy, Kay, Harsent and O'Brien on Costa shortlist (Guardian)
13 Frank Skinner: 'I read quite a lot of poetry, I'm surprised more people don't' (IOS)
11 Robert Hass pushed around by police in Berkeley protests (Poetry Foundation)
11 Remembrance Day reminds us why poetry matters (Telegraph)
11 Times Stephen Spender Prize - commended poets include PS members Jane Draycott, Adam Elgar and John Turner (Stephen Spender Trust)
11 Jen Campbell raises £3k for charity by writing 100 poems in a weekend (Press Association)
10 J C Hall, poet and executor to Keith Douglas, dies at 91 (Telegraph)
10 Liz Lochhead in favour of Scottish independence (Scottish Herald)
10 Startling tribute to Wilfred Owen (BBC)
10 Unpublished Sassoon poems discovered (BBC)
9 Jimmy Carter welcomes visitors to Dylan Thomas's house (BBC)
7 Armitage: there's a "whiff of rot" about poetry (Guardian podcast)
6 Poetry Society member Carola Luther is new Wordsworth Trust poet (Westmorland Gazette)
5 Ewald Osers, former Popescu prize winner, obituary (Independent)
4 PS Member Nancy Gaffield is 2011 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival First Collection Prize winner (Poetry Trust)
4 Philip Levine still knows how to make trouble (NY Times)
4 Zephaniah on BBC Question Time: Church should join St Paul's demo (BBC)
2 Ted Hughes Poets' Corner memorial near TS Eliot (BBC)
1 PS Member Sarah James wins Vintage Inns poetry competition (Droitwich Advertiser)
1 Harold Pinter and the art of cricket poetry (Guardian)
1 Carol Rumens: Michael D Higgins is no poet (Guardian)
October News
31 "Lyrics, even poetic ones, are not poems." (Chicago Tribune)
31 'What is this life if, full of care...' 'Leisure' celebrates centenary (BBC)
29 The greatest poetry reading ever? (San Francisco Chronicle)
29 'Gerald' Manley Hopkins - oops! (BBC)
28 Christopher Reid: a life in writing (Guardian)
28 Judith Palmer and Diana Quick: 'do awards matter?' (Guardian)
28 Ireland chooses poet as President (Guardian)
27 50 of poetry's most poignant lines (Stylist)
27 Duffy: "When you’ve finished a poem, you don’t know if you’ll ever write another one" (Stylist)
26 Matthew Hollis wins £5k H W Fisher Best First Biography prize (Booktrade)
25 Penny Rutterford on how to set up a poetry trail in your area (NALD)
24 Wilfred Owen's poetry lives on in his forest hideout (Daily Mail)
23 Vanessa Redgrave on 'Fakespeare' theory (BBC)
23 Lines of Beauty: the art of Sylvia Plath (Guardian)
21 T S Eliot's village bares its teeth (Huffington Post)
21 Heaney to get lifetime achievement award (Irish Times)
20 New sponsor for the Eliot Prize (Bookseller)
20 TS Eliot Prize shortlist announced (Poetry Book Society)
20 Interview with Kate Clanchy (Oxford Times)
19 PS Members Anna Meryt, Gill McEvoy and Lesley Burt 1st, 2nd & 3rd in Lupus UK Poetry Competition (Excel for Charity)
19 PS Member Catherine Fisher is Wales' first Young People's Laureate (BBC)
19 Burns verse back in pub window (BBC)
19 Wayne Price wins Brit Writers' Poetry Award (Brit Writers)
19 PS Member Pat Borthwick wins Keats-Shelley Prize. Carole Bromley 3rd (Gazette & Herald)
16 Booker Prize divides quality from readability says Andrew Motion (Guardian)
15 Seren is 30 (Wales Online)
14 Benjamin Zephaniah Q&A (Guardian)
12 Live Canon Competition shortlist (Live Canon)
11 The case for children's poetry (University of Cambridge)
11 Anna Adams obituary (Guardian)
11 Words and pictures from National Poetry Day Live (Londonist)
9 Alice Oswald interview (Guardian)
7 Tomas Tranströmer wins Nobel Prize for Literature (Mirror)
7Poetry podcast: Forward prize, English poets in Paris, poetry in St Pancras (Guardian)
7 Carol Ann Duffy interview (Independent)
6 How was National Poetry Day covered in the UK media? (Poetry@Suite101)
6 John Agard interview (Bookseller)
6 Olympic Park to host inspiring poetry (Independent)
6 William Sieghart : why I set up the Forward Prize (Guardian)
5 John Burnside finally wins Forward Prize (Guardian)
4 Live webchat: post your questions to Neil Astley (Guardian)
3 Druids oppose poems carved into rocks on Ilkley Moor (BBC)
2 Foyle Young Poets: top 15 winners announced (IOS)
September news
30 Beckham promised me football boots, says Poet Laureate (BBC)
29 Seamus Heaney Prize shortlist includes PS members Anna Robinson, Victor Tapner, Katherine Towers. Tom Duddy and Valerie Duff also on the list (Seamus Heaney Centre)
27 Adonis declared favourite for Nobel Prize (Guardian)
27 'Acts of Godfrey' - new film written in rhyming couplets (BBC)
26 Emanuel Litvinoff obituary (Guardian)
26 Sarah Crown, William Fiennes & Sharon Murray on Costa Poetry panel (Bookseller)
26 Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare (BBC)
23 Books power 100 includes Duffy, Heaney and Motion (Guardian)
23 Film based on 'Paradise Lost' would see Milton turn in his grave (Guardian)
22 Poets are treated like rock stars... in Colombia (Cape Times)
22 János Csokits obituary (Guardian)
22 25 rules for translating poetry from Popescu shortlistees (Arabic Literature)
21 The artists' artists: poets (Guardian)
21 Griffin Poetry Prize jury includes Review Editor Fiona Sampson (The Afterword)
20 2011 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize shortlist includes PS members Rachael Boast, Nancy Gaffield and Jacqueline Saphra (Poetry Trust)
19 Gwyneth Lewis tribute to Gleision miners (BBC)
18 Sylvia Plath to feature on US Post Office stamp (Guardian)
15 "It's kinda my first job". Benjamin Zephaniah, new Chair of Creative Writing at Brunel (Thames Higher Education)
13 PS member Victor Tapner on poetry shortlist, East Anglian Book Awards (EDP24)
12 Herbert Lomas obituary (Guardian)
12 Poets battling for Heaney honour (Press Association)
9 The poetry of 9/11 and it's aftermath (Huffington Post)
9 Poetry was way of making sense of the madness: Fatima Bhutto (Zee News)
7 Camilla joins Poet Laureate in school poetry drive (Press Association)
6 Duffy: texting and Twitter 'help students perfect poetry' (Telegraph)
2 Daljit Nagra: My hero, Les Murray (Guardian)
1 Poetry Society member Rachael Boast on Guardian first book award long list (Guardian)
August news
30 Syrian poet Adonis becomes first Arab writer to win Goethe prize (Guardian)
25 Love of RS Thomas's work leads to textbook for Japanese Welsh learners (BBC)
23 East Coker bids for World Heritage Status (BBC)
18 Poetry Society reinstates Judith Palmer (Guardian)
17 Poetry Society member Jane McKie wins £5k Edwin Morgan prize (BBC)
17 Coleridge's cottage to reopen (BBC)
16 Forward shortlist round-up (Telegraph)
16 Jackie Kay meets birth sisters (Guardian)
15 Poets bare all for calendar (Guardian)
14 Anne Born obituary (Guardian)
12 'Birmingham' for Tariq Jahan by Carol Ann Duffy (Guardian)
10 Auden's 'Night Mail' is 75 years old (BBC)
9 Philip Levine to be next US Poet Laureate (NY Times)
4 Poetry Society Stanza members on Radio 4 (Independent)
3 Clive Allison - publisher of A&B - obituary (Guardian)
3 US Poet Laureate says humans failing themselves (Mainichi Daily News)
1 Martin Figura & Polly Clark feature on August's Poetry International Web-UK
July news
27 Cardiff International Poetry Comp: Runners Up include PS members Nina Boyd, Mary O'Donnell, Lesley Saunders & Karen McCarthy Woolf (Literature Wales)
26 Fran Landesman obituary (Telegraph)
25 Philip Gross: "I often think the best thing poets can do for poetry in schools is work with teacher" (BBC)
14 Foward Prize shortlists: Best First Collection:
14 Foward Prize shortlists: Best Collection: Geoffrey Hill, David Harsent, Sean O'Brien, John Burnside, Michael Longley, D Nurkse (Guardian)
14 Foward Prize shortlists: Best Single Poem: Alan Jenkins and Jo Shapcott (both poems from Poetry Review), RF Langley and Sharon Olds (Guardian)
11 In praise of the protest poetry of the Arab spring (Guardian)
11 Poetry 'bomber' targets charity shops (Guardian)
11 PS member Sarah Leavesley (aka Sarah James) wins 3rd prize in 2011 International Rubery Book Award (Rubery)
10 Russian-born poet held in cell and deported from UK (Guardian)
10 Heaney and Longley break charity shop record (BBC)
9 Ted Hughes catches the animal within (Telegraph)
8 Rowan Williams - in a tradition of Welsh poet-priests? (Guardian)
8 Bust of Tagore unveiled by Prince Charles (BBC)
8 Rereading Tagore (Guardian)
8 PS members Gillian Andrews, Sarah Jackson, Jane McKie and Lydia MacPherson nominated for £5,000 Edwin Morgan prize. Jane Yeh also nominated (Guardian)
8 Print book sales decline in first half of 2011 (Bookseller)
8 £55m fund announced to help cultural organisations build endowments (Arts Council)
7 Library campaigners win right to judicial review over closures (Bookseller)
7 PS member Gillie Robic 3rd in South Bank Poetry comp; members Sarah Westcott & Suzanna Fitzpatrick commended (Poetry Book Society)
7 Poetry professor calls for education policy reverse (Cherwell)
7 Fiction 'improves social understanding' (BBC)
7 Byron memorial book found in bring and buy sale (National Library of Scotland)
6 Philip Gross wins CLPE award for children's poetry (Salt)
5 Cathedral tour for Laureate (BBC)
5 Hampton Court gardens based on poems by Keats, Wordsworth, Byron et al (BBC)
June news
29 Did Browning murder his beloved wife? (London Evening Standard)
29 Nick Laird on poetry online (Guardian)
28 Ruth Padel on the Poetry Society and Poetry Review (Guardian letters)
27 Teachers use hip hop to teach poetry (Guardian)
25 India-Wales Writers Chain: Poetry exchange at Ty Newydd (BBC)
24 Kona Macphee wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry (Faber)
23 $50k Poetry Competition seeks world's best poem (paidcontents.org)
22 Garrison Keillor to dedicate new Poetry Foundation HQ, Chicago (Daily Journal)
22 Derek Walcott interviewed (Independent)
21 $100k Kingsley Tufts Prize accepting nominations (LA Times)
20 Betjeman Festival in home town (BBC)
20 'Help Save East Coker' (video)
20 Clarke, Knight and O'Driscoll to judge TS Eliot Prize (Booktrade)
20 Edwin Morgan leaves £1 million to SNP (newsnetscotland.com)
17 Yale announce $150k literary prizes (NY Times)
15 Booktrust has 17 titles on offer to year 7 pupils (Bookseller)
15 Poets included in Somerset Maugham Awards (Society of Authors)
15 Cholmondeley and Gregory winners announced (Society of Authors)
14 Jay-Z explains why rap should be considered as poetry (Hip Hop DX)
14 Bahraini woman's poetry lands her in jail (Miami Herald)
14 Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak win ‘Found in Translation’ award (News from Poland)
11 Patricia Oxley, editor of Acumen, receives MBE (thisissouthdevon)
10 Eliot's widow donates to literacy appeal (London Standard)
8 Government intervention crucial for literacy, Michael Rosen (Bookseller)
8 Gorsedd honour for Gillian Clarke (BBC)
7 "We've protected poetry funding", Arts Council (Channel 4 News)
5 Why poetry needs Arts Council cash, Chris Holifield (Channel 4 News)
3 Josephine Hart obituary (Guardian)
3 Leonard Cohen wins major Spanish literary prize (Guardian)
2 Gillian Clarke: "It is a complete tragedy to cut funding for organisations that buy lots of poetry books and actually help publishers to sell their books." (Wales Online)
2 Glyn Hughes obituary (Guardian)
1 Welsh Children's Poet Laureate unveiled
1 65k CDN Griffin Poetry Prize winners announced (Griffin Trust)
1 Benjamin Zephaniah: "teacher told me not everyone can read well... so try football" (London Standard)
May news
31 Duffy stages benefit for Poetry Book Society (Bookseller)
31 Sky Arts looking to partner six leading arts organisations (Sky Arts)
31 London Underground celebrates Polish poetry (Rail.co)
31 UK's largest poetry festival planned for Olympics (Guardian)
31 Poetry tree planted in Edinburgh raising funds for Japan earthquake victims (Scotsman)
29 Gil Scott-Heron dies at 62 (Daily Mail)
29 Sky invites in young artistic talent (Arts&Business)
27 Keats House acquires love letters to Fanny Brawne (Culture24)
26 Kate Moss moves in to Coleridge's Xanadu (Guardian)
26 David Ferry wins $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (Boston.com)
26 Irena Sendler, who smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of Warsaw Ghetto, wins Spanish poetry prize (Reuters)
26 Geoffrey Hill interview (The Oxford Student)
24 Academic conference weighs up Bob Dylan's poetic influence (Guardian)
23 Poetry Society member Mark Niel is Milton Keynes' first Poet Laureate (BBC)
20 Waterstone's sold for £53m (Bookseller)
19 Pascale Petit shortlisted for Welsh Book of the Year (BBC)
18 Was Common a good choice for White House poetry night? (NY Times)
18 Iraq is invaded - this time by poets (Telegraph)
17 Poetry success for Faber, Quercus publisher of the year awards (Bookseller)
12 Rapper at White House poetry night draws GOP ire (Guardian)
10 PS Youth member Elizabeth Johnson wins £3,000 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition. Elizabeth was also commended in the 2010 Foyle Young Poets competition (Booktrade)
8 300 top British intellectuals include poets Kevin Crossley-Holland, Carol Ann Duffy, James Fenton, Seamus Heaney, Christopher Logue, Michael Longley, Andrew Motion, Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin, Craig Raine, Denise Riley, Derek Walcott (Guardian)
4 Celebrities hope to foster love of poetry in children (Standard)
4 Women Poet Register created (Poetry Library)
2 Aleš Šteger's The Book of Things, trans by Brian Henry, wins $5k Best Translated Book Award for poetry (Rochester.edu)
April news
30 Michael Marks Awards shortlist (Poetry Library)
27 Poetry Society members Wendy Klein and Gill McEvoy win prizes in Norwich Writers Competition (Norwich Writers)
24 PJ Harvey's poetry inspirations (Observer)
24 Poet Clare Askew on her collection of typewriters (Observer)
23 Carol Ann Duffy brings together new poems on the theme of 'weddings' (Guardian)
20 Plans for inaugural National Library Day include poetry (Bookseller)
20 Scottish book of the year longlist (poetry): Eddie Gibbons, Kei Miller, Robin Robertson, Stewart Conn (Scottish Mortgage)
20 Wendy Cope archive sold to British Library (Guardian)
19 Forward Prize: Andrew Motion to chair + Fiona Sampson, Leonie Rushforth, Antonia Fraser (Bookseller)
18 Kay Ryan wins Pulitzer Prize for poetry (examiner.com)
18 Modern war poetry: British soldiers explore Afghanistan and Iraq wars in verse (Telegraph)
17 Paintings of top poets on display (Enfield Independent)
14 Laureate to write Royal Wedding poem (Telegraph)
14 Pascale Petit, Patrick McGuinness and Alan Wall on longlist for Wales Book of the Year (Wales Online)
14 How to memorise 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (Guardian)
14 Walt Whitman's working life (Guardian)
13 Poetry Society member Christopher North wins £500 Mayor of Enfield competition. PS member Kaye Lee is 3rd (Enfield Council)
12 Faber Poetry nominated in 2011 Bookseller Industry Awards (Bookseller)
12 More support needed for children's poetry (Bookseller)
11 Michael Horovitz looking for new home for archives (Standard)
11 Robert Frost: First World War 'exciting at first but it lost some interest' (Telegraph)
10 'A Cut Back' by Carol Ann Duffy (Against Tory Cuts blog)
10 What's wrong with popularising poetry? (Guardian)
8 Gillian Clarke speaks up for Dylan Thomas Centre (WalesOnline)
8 Kim Morgan is Wirral's Young Poet Laureate (Wirral Globe)
8 Linda Chase obituary (Carcanet)
7 Alice Beer obituary (Guardian)
7 Philip Pullman attacks ACE poetry cuts (Bookseller)
7 Seamus Heaney on Czeslaw Milosz's centenary (Guardian)
6 Poet wins $50k Jackson Poetry Prize (Things To Do)
6 Fears over access to children's poetry after ACE cuts (Bookseller)
6 Heaney shortlisted for CAN$65K Griffin Prize (Irish Times)
5 Shocking news of cut backs to the poetry world (Daljit Nagra, Poetry Archive)
5 Poetry 'dealt with in fell swoop' by ACE (Spectator)
5 PBS to challenge ACE decision (Bookseller)
5 What the PBS means to poets (Carol Rumens, Guardian)
4 Withdrawal of PBS funding sparks outcry (Guardian)
1 9 leading poets call for rethink on ACE cuts (Bookseller)
1 Lincolnshire's first Poet Laureate named (The Lincolnite)
March news
31 Arts Council funding for literature rises 9.9% (Guardian)
31 We should cherish poetry, not kill it (John Walsh, Independent)
30 PS Members Cheryl Moskowitz and Sandy Goldbeck-Wood shortlisted for Hippocrates prizes for Poetry and Medicine (Hippocrates website)
30 Arts Council funding: full details (Guardian)
30 Rita Dove on link between storytelling and poetry (Tufts Daily)
30 £96k for Keats love letter to Fanny Brawne (Guardian)
29 Robert Burns Birthplace Museum - a not so tim'rous beastie (Guardian)
28 Why cut arts funding? (Polly Toynbee, Guardian)
28 Which tells the greatest truth - poetry or journalism? (Guardian)
25 Paul Adrian wins NPC (Guardian)
24 $50k Montreal Poetry Prize announced (National Post)
24 Society member Chrissie Gittins interviewed - audio (BBC Radio Lancashire)
23 Tributes to Raymond Garlick, Anglo-Welsh poet (BBC)
20 Eliot's East Coker resists threat of housing invasion (Guardian)
17 Wilfred Owen Musuem to open in Birkenhead (BBC)
17 Foyle Young Poet Sarah Lucas wins Moss Rich 'Sounding the Site' Poetry Prize (Secondary Student section). PS Member Annie Kerr wins General Public section, Julia O'Brien is runner-up. (Pighog Press)
16 Poetry wins US National Magazine Award (Galleycat)
14 Felix Dennis on poetry (Forbes)
14 Tony Harrison awarded European Prize for Literature (Bookseller)
13 Blagger's guide to the Ted Hughes Award (IOS)
11 £1m fund for poetry and literature for young people (UKFundraising)
11 10 best American poems (Jay Parini, Guardian)
8 Poetry Society member Gill McEvoy wins 3rd place in Fellows' Poetry Prize (English Association)
7 HMV Group makes Waterstone's pledge (Bookseller)
7 McGonagall and McIntyre remembered with public recitals (Guardian)
7 Ted Hughes Award shortlist (Disability Arts Online)
4 Tennyson verse chosen for Olympics (Guardian)
4 Sales growth for Heaney and Duffy due to
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