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Poetry newslog February 2004
January 18, 2006
Morgan Scottish poet laureate
For the first time in its history, Scotland has appointed an official poet laureate. Glasgow-born Edwin Morgan (83) was appointed "The Scots makar" (poet) by first minister Jack McConnell, The Guardian reports. Professor Morgan, widely acknowledged to be Scotland’s leading contemporary poet, and was already made Glasgow’s poet laureate in 1997. Morgan now becomes Scotland’s nearest equivalent to a Poet Laureate, a post that in Britain has never been held by any Scottish, Irish or Welsh poet. "It will possibly make the English think about their own poet laureate and their relation to Scotland and other parts of the UK," Morgan said. "The Scots Makar" is a term dating back to the Scots poets of the 15th and 16th century, writes the BBC.
Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
Queen’s University in Belfast has officially opened the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, in honour of one of its most famous alumni. The £3m centre is to be an international base for high-quality research and creative writing with a particular focus on poetry in modern Ireland, reports the BBC, intended to enhance Queen’s and Northern Ireland’s reputation as a world literary force. Among the many distinguished poets who graduated from Queens is Ciaran Carson, who is to be the new director of the new centre.
Morgan Scottish poet laureate
Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
February 17, 2004Morgan Scottish poet laureate
For the first time in its history, Scotland has appointed an official poet laureate. Glasgow-born Edwin Morgan (83) was appointed "The Scots makar" (poet) by first minister Jack McConnell, The Guardian reports. Professor Morgan, widely acknowledged to be Scotland’s leading contemporary poet, and was already made Glasgow’s poet laureate in 1997. Morgan now becomes Scotland’s nearest equivalent to a Poet Laureate, a post that in Britain has never been held by any Scottish, Irish or Welsh poet. "It will possibly make the English think about their own poet laureate and their relation to Scotland and other parts of the UK," Morgan said. "The Scots Makar" is a term dating back to the Scots poets of the 15th and 16th century, writes the BBC.
Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
Queen’s University in Belfast has officially opened the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, in honour of one of its most famous alumni. The £3m centre is to be an international base for high-quality research and creative writing with a particular focus on poetry in modern Ireland, reports the BBC, intended to enhance Queen’s and Northern Ireland’s reputation as a world literary force. Among the many distinguished poets who graduated from Queens is Ciaran Carson, who is to be the new director of the new centre.
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