What caught my eye about this artist is that his work is largely created in a 2 mile square area. I am always struggling with what I want to paint as I have been stuck at home with illness a lot these days. Perhaps,...
In this Lit Chick Show audio-cast, we feature Apryl Skies, a LA-based poet, filmmaker and author of children's books. Apryl has won a Gold Pixie award for animation in 2010 for her...
I am a soldier on active duty with the Canadian Forces who just happens to be a published poet. Most of the troops I serve with don’t know that I even write. In this blog, I aim to post irregular updates on my progress towards getting my current poetry published, raising a...
opinion by widge | 3 years ago 638 views | 16 recommendations | 6 comments
Constance Stadler’s latest collection of works is rendered with a silken touch. Her words and thoughts are revealed in a poetic mastery that can only be penned by this magnificent poet. Her articulation of words and verse remind me of an explorer, searching out and finding...
POETRY BOOK: A TIME FOR RHYME AND SUCCESS POETRY By Warren Brown Email: info@publishsuccess.com Website: http://www.publishsuccess.com Warren Brown, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio...
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As Andrew Motion comes to the end of his term as Poet Laureate it appears hotly tipped Manchester based Carol Anne Duffy will step into his shoes. " Carol Ann Duffy is to be named as the new Poet Laureate, the first woman to be appointed in the 341-year history of the post. ...
created by Mrsmission4 | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 256 views | 30 recommendations | 3 comments
Andrew Motion is the current poet laureate but is soon to step down and the poet that is currently favourite to take his place, Wendy Cope, has ruled herself out of the post by calling for it to be abolished....
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 269 views | 34 recommendations | 3 comments
The life of the great Scottish poet Robert Burns is being projected as a giant illuminated art installation in Glasgow's George Square. It will form the centre piece for Sunday's Glasgow celebration's of ...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 269 views | 24 recommendations | 3 comments
Salted and boiled the guga are eaten as a delicacy. For the uninitiated just the smell can make one wretch but they are prized by the people of of the Isle of Lewis. The guga are young gannet chicks taken by the...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1231 views | 15 recommendations | 4 comments
Poetry is often said to be in the heart of lovers, artists, and great thinkers but many in the west will be suprised that Osama bin Laden is a poet. Bin Laden is according to Professor Flagg Miller of the...
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Poet Carol Ann Duffy has been touted by some as possibly being in line to be the first ever woman British poet laureat and here we see her response to the English exam boards removing her poem 'Education for...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 486 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
A Sufi saint’s shrine that was built in 1356 in Sehwan, in the province of Sindh, is the hub of activity these days by millions of his devotees in Pakistan. Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, whose annual death anniversary...
created by rumana husain | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 3564 views | 39 recommendations | 13 comments
Poets these days rarely make the headlines and their fans are not generally the knicker throwing variety that bomb the stage of pop icons such as Tom Jones and his modern counterparts with underwear and love...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 259 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Acclaimed and exiled Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (see his biography on Wikipedia) will be buried in the West Bank on Wednesday. Darwish passed away this past weekend, at the age of 67, due to complications...