The Poetry Society (Poetry in the News 2009)

Poetry in the News 2009

DECEMBER

31 Woman's Hour celebrates a year in poetry, with Fiona Sampson, Carol Ann Duffy, Jen Hadfield and Alice Oswald (BBC)

21 A new poem for Tony Blair by Simon Armitage (Guardian)

20 Hearing a poet reading their own work is endlessly entertaining (William Leith / Guardian)

20 Don Paterson reveals his fantasy career (Observer)

18 Simon Armitage: "I'm quite boyish in my outlook" (Independent)

16 SLAMbassadors mentioned in feature on 'rapid fire poetry' (Times Online)

14 Maitreyabandhu wins £1000 Basil Bunting Poetry Competition; 2nd Peter Bennet; 3rd Poetry Society member Jane Routh (Journal Live)

12 Christmas roundup: poetry books (Guardian)

11 Derek Walcott appointed professor of poetry at Essex (Guardian)

10 Fiona Sampson, Poetry Review Editor, picks the best poetry books for Xmas (Independent)

9 Judith Palmer, Director of the Poetry Society: "The (Oxford Poetry Professor) contest is notoriously bruising, and there have been many excellent poets who would not dream of putting themselves forward" (Guardian)

8 Oxford announces changes to voting system for new Professor of Poetry. (Oxford University Website)

7 Judith Palmer, Director of the Poetry Society. "(Carol Ann Duffy is) a very funny person, with a fantastic sense of humour, and I think in the months and years to come the public will discover what a versatile poet she is." (Telegraph)

7 "In a nearby coffee shop, a young Wilfred Owen broods over his rejection slip from the Poetry Review." (Guardian)

6 Laureate puts political spin on 12 days of Xmas (Observer). Read the poem in full in the RadioTimes

4 Your brain on poetry (Huffington Post)

3 Poe's poetry to fetch record price (Telegraph)

3 Ted Hughes was a prophet of climate change (Times Online)

2 Who killed John Keats? (Times Online)

2 The rise of poetry in advertising (Guardian)

2 Poetry Society member Liz Berry wins tall-lighthouse poetry competition

1 Poetry Society member David Gilbert joint 3rd in Troubadour Poetry Prize

1 Why only Poets' Corner will do for Ted Hughes (Simon Armitage, Standard)

NOVEMBER

30 Why I never became a poet (Guardian)

29 Ruth Padel: "I rush into things... I'm full of self-doubt"
(Guardian)

27 Can literature face the storm of climate change? (Independent)

25 Sexus Maximus! (Mail Online)

25 Costa nominations (Times Online)

24 Poetry increases brain activity (Guardian)

22 Larkin loved his mum and dad (Telegraph)

22 Schiller's 250th (Guardian)

20 Who painted over Poetry Society commissioned poem at Waterloo? (Spectator)

20 Keith Waldrop wins National Book Award for Poetry (CBS)

20 Auden and Britten meet at the National Theatre (Wall St Journal)

19 Dyslexic girl wins national poetry prize (Witney Gazette)

18 Andrew Motion to chair 2010 Man Booker Prize (BBC)

14 100 best books of the decade includes Duffy, Imlah, Donaghy, Armitage, Oswald, Logue, Hughes (Collected), and Staying Alive (Times)

14 Maya Angelou interview (Guardian)

14 Blake Morrison reviews A Century of Poetry Review (Guardian)

12 Salt's campaign funds eroded by bad autumn sales

9 Motion: "So what if I copied work? Shakespeare did all the time" (Times)

9 Jo Shapcott: Do women write female poetry? (Guardian)

9 TS Eliot's Margate shelter (Stephen Moss, Guardian)

7 PS members Michael Swan and Jane Tozer placed in Stephen Spender prize (Times)

7 JO Morgan wins Aldeburgh prize (Guardian)

6 Poet and playwright new Welsh Archdruid (BBC)

5 Bright Star 'better than The Piano' (Guardian)

5 Larkin statue to be unveiled (Hull Daily Mail)

5 The wasteland that was TS Eliot's first marriage (Josephine Hart, Standard)

4 Save a great London poetry landmark - The Waterloo installation of Sue Hubbard's poem Eurydice (Chris Hamilton-Emery, Guardian)

4 Stephen King publishes a poem in Playboy (Guardian)

4 'A quite extraordinary affair’: the impetuous life and free-ranging work of Lynette Roberts (TLS)

4 Siegfried Sassoon archive likely to stay in UK after £550,000 award (Guardian)

2 Ben Whishaw interview for Bright Star (Telegraph)

2 When Keats met Vivienne Westwood (Guardian)

1 Letters debunk myth of TS Eliot's cruelty (Times Online)

OCTOBER

31 Michael Morpurgo: my hero, Ted Hughes (Guardian)

30 Alan Bennett: why Auden the bore nearly turned me off writing (Guardian)

30 Byron's vitriolic letters set auction record (Times)

28 £3,000 Keats-Shelley prize goes to DH Maitreyabandhu (Guardian)*

*Read Maitreyabandhu's 'Visitation' online - from the current Poetry Review

28 Forensic experts begin exhuming a mass unmarked grave that could hold Lorca's remains (NY Times)

26 Emma Jones's The Striped World nominated for £5,000 Llewellyn Rhys prize. (Bookseller)

26 John Keats suffered agonising death at hands of bungling doctor, new book claims (Telegraph)

24 Tony Harrison's literary heroes (Guardian)

22 Simon Armitage writing about TS Eliot shortlist
(Guardian)

21 "Government risks losing money as well as creativity if arts funding is cut"
(Guardian)

21 Are theatre and poetry really so different?
(Guardian)

20 Vicar fed up with Tina Turner and 'nan's poetry' at funerals
(Times)

19 Bright Star review (Standard)

17 Craig Raine "There is more lying about sex than about any other area so it's very important to be truthful"
(Guardian)

10 Clive James
"Showbusiness has fuelled my work as a poet and a critic." (Guardian)

9 Is poetry undergoing a revival? (Telegraph)

9 Less than half of Primary School teachers can name 3 poets (Mail)

9 Josephine Hart: "Poets deserve our thanks for their dedication to the craft of capturing and preserving experience" (Guardian)

9 Is T.S.Eliot really the nation's favourite poet? (Telegraph)

9 Fiona Sampson comments on Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel literature prize (Independent)

8 40ft x 40ft patchwork poem knitted by more than 1,000 people. (Times)

8 Poetry in the digital future (Bookseller)

8 Carol Ann Duffy reads poem for NPD (BBC)

8 Don Paterson wins Forward Prize (Standard)

8 TS Eliot is Nation's Favourite Poet (Times)

8 Joanna Lumley poetry album (Telegraph)

5 Poetry in the movies (Guardian)

5 Impact of postal strike on poetry (Evening Standard)

4 Poetry Please - featuring Poetry Society's knitted poem and poems for National Poetry Day (BBC)

4 Foyle Young Poets celebrated (IOS)

SEPTEMBER

29 October hots up for poetry (Bookseller)

29 Atheism in verse (Guardian)

29 Books Etc high street stores to close (Independent)

27 Foyle Young Poets winners named on National Poetry Day (Telegraph)

27 Tess Gallagher publishes uncut Raymond Carver stories (Guardian)

27 Byron's letters discovered (Guardian)

26 30th anniversary of Poetry Please (This is Bristol.co.uk)

26 Heaney's Beowulf - sophisticated people with a love of words (Guardian)

25 Scotland celebrates Adrian Mitchell (Times Online)

25 Wasafiri celebrates 25 years (Bookseller)

25 25 most influential books in the world includes Bishop, Heaney, Hughes, Ginsberg (Telegraph)

25 Learning to love poetry again(Guardian)

22 Tony Harrison gets Pen Pinter prize (Bookseller)

21 Slam poetry in Dubai (The National, UAE)

19 The link between science and poetry (Guardian)

18 Don Paterson on new collection 'Rain' (Guardian)

17 Glyn Maxwell's poetry workshop on NPD theme of Heroes & Heroines (Guardian)

16 The uses of erotic poetry (Guardian)|

16 Judges lined up for Costa Poetry Award (Bookseller)

16 Bright Star reviewed (New York Times)

14 Jim Carroll (New York Times)

14 Nii Parkes to take role of Booktrust online writer in residence (Bookseller)

12 Enduring appeal of Samuel Johnson's 'Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets' (Guardian)

12 New Ted Hughes collection to be published after 50 years (Times Online)

11 Sheers, Gwyneth Lewis rework the Mabinogion (Bookseller)

9 War poetry from the perspective of 1944 (Guardian)

9 Poets visiting hospices (Guardian)

8 Adam Foulds makes it to Man Booker shortlist (Bookseller)

7 ACE launch Artistic Assessors scheme (Bookseller)

7 Faber to run poetry-writing courses in Ireland (Bookseller)

5 The books that stand the test of time (New York Times)

5 John Cooper Clarke interview (Guardian)

5 Robert Fergusson's grave to be repaired (Daily Record)

3 Celebs invade the poetry world (Evening Standard)

3 US poetry greats translated into Arabic (Guardian)

2 Eliot rejected Bloomsbury group's 'cursed fund' to work in bank (Guardian)

1 Dic Jones: "face like an undertaker's shovel, but the mind of Byron"