New Jersey Poets and Poetry (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Poet David Moolten The Hunterdon County Library welcomes award-winning poet David Moolten at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 22. Moolten is the winner of the 2009 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry sponsored by Truman State University Press, Kirksville, Mo. His winning poetry collection, "Primitive Mood," just published this fall, was selected from 500 manuscripts in the 13th annual competition. Moolten...
Molten Language (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The shortlist for The T S Eliot Prize 2009:Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Sun FishFred D'Aguiar : Continental ShelfJane Draycott : OverPhilip Gross : The Water TableSinéad Morrissey : Through the Square WindowSharon Olds : One Secret ThingAlice Oswald : Weeds & Wild FlowersChristopher Reid : A ScatteringGeorge Szirtes : The Burning of the Books and Other PoemsHugo Williams...
O Say Can You Chihuahua (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Polestar #15 Sunday, November 1, 2009 5 pm C.S. Carrier Roddy Lumsden Emmett Tracy CAKESHOP 152 Ludlow (between Stanton & Rivington) Trains to: Delancey-Essex Sts (F, J, M, Z) 2nd Ave-Houston St (F, V) Grand St (B, D) About the poets: C. S. Carrier is the author of the poetry collection, After Dayton (Four Way Books, 2008) and the chapbooks, Lyric (horse less press 2007) and The 16s (Katalanche...
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The shortlist for the 2009 T.S. Eliot Prize has been announced by the Poetry Book Society:The Sun-fish by Eiléan Ní ChuilleánainContinental Shelf by Fred D'AguiarOver by Jane DraycottThe Water Table by Philip GrossThrough the Square Window by Sinéad MorrisseyOne Secret Thing by Sharon OldsWeeds & Wild Flowers by Alice OswaldA Scattering by Christopher ReidThe Burning...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
TS Eliot prize shortlists poets 'who have dreamed and who have dared' Chair of judges Simon Armitage says writers 'in a holding pattern' have been passed over Alison Flood , guardian.co.uk , Thursday 22 October 2009 Don Paterson's Forward prize-winning collection Rain has been overlooked for this year's TS Eliot prize, which has selected a shortlist of 10 poets "who have dreamed and who have dared",...
hi spirits (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
The shortlistThe Sun-fish by Eiléan Ní ChuilleánainContinental Shelf by Fred D'AguiarOver by Jane DraycottThe Water Table by Philip GrossThrough the Square Window by Sinéad MorrisseyOne Secret Thing by Sharon OldsWeeds & Wild Flowers by Alice OswaldA Scattering by Christopher ReidThe Burning of the Books and Other Poems by George SzirtesWest End Final by Hugo Williams...
Poetry Hut Blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
— Egypt police attack Poets against Succession meeting with Ayman Nour — *** — Leaping wolf snatches photo prize — *** — TS Eliot prize shortlists poets ‘who have dreamed and who have dared’ — *** — Meet The News 2 City Cam Hawk… — *** — How human nature turned one word into history’s longest thesaurus entry — ***...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
TWO IRISH poets have made it on to the shortlist for this year’s TS Eliot Prize for Poetry. The list for the award, one of the most prestigious a poet can receive, includes Cork-born Eiléan Ní Chuillenáin, for her new collection, The Sun-fish (Gallery Press), and Northern Ireland poet Sinéad Morrissey for Through the Square Window (Carcanet).
Polyolbion (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
The shortlist has been announced, and The Guardian ran a lengthy piece about the runners and riders here . They seem to have spread the net a bit further than the Forward did (although their shortlist is twice as long, to be fair), but I think Simon Armitage might be slightly overstating the case when he says that the list reflects the "scope and breadth" of contemporary British poetry. Still,...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Canadian John Ralston Saul, seen here dressed as me at age 50, ascends to throne of World PEN… Muwahahahahaha! (He’s a Bookninja sleeper agent.) Gabriel García Márquez spied on by Mexican government… wait for it… wait for it… Some great poets on the TS Eliot Prize shortlist, but no Don Paterson Party for Norman Mailer a success, most [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Chair of judges Simon Armitage says writers 'in a holding pattern' have been passed over Don Paterson's Forward prize-winning collection Rain has been overlooked for this year's TS Eliot prize, which has selected a shortlist of 10 poets "who have dreamed and who have dared", according to chair of judges Simon Armitage. From Alice Oswald's poetic field guide Weeds & Wild Flowers to Fred...
The Art of Fiction (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
It's been an important week in poetry, with the announcement of the Forward Prize winners (Don Paterson, Emma Jones and Robin Robertson ) to coincide with National Poetry Day . The latter seems to limp along a little these days, though the BBC dutifully covers it (this year: Dreadlock Alien, Daisy Goodwin and Alison Steadman were the talking heads on breakfast) and I'm sure there's a lot of decent...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Rounding out our bookish Tuesday , we bring you a little sneak preview of a poetic Thursday. National Poetry Day is nearly here - Christmas come early for all those good little sonneteers, spoken wordsters, and free-versing anarchists. This year's theme is Heroes and Heroines because, as the site says , 'Poetry celebrates heroes of all sorts from sporting heroes to mums and dads.' Bit prosaic, that,...
Tusitala - Teach! Teach! Teach (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
I want you and you are not here. I pausein this garden, breathing the colour thought isbefore language into still air. Even your nameis a pale ghost and, though I exhale it againand again, it will not stay with me. TonightI make you up, imagine you, your movements clearerthan the words I have you say you said before. Wherever you are now, inside my head you fix mewith a look, standing here whilst cool...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
and religion, [T.S.] Eliot was sensitive to the relationship between theology and literature. "The Waste Land" explores apocalyptic images with Biblical allusions while four of his later poems, "The Four Quartets" ("Burnt Norton," "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding"), employ religious symbolism. from findingDulcinea: Happy...
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