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Poetry newslog June 2003
January 18, 2006
Avison and Muldoon share Griffin Prize
Margaret Avison, who at the age of 85 is one of Canada’s senior poets, yesterday evening accepted the Canadian Griffin Prize for her collection Concrete And Wild Carrot. She shares the prize, worth 80,000 Canadian dollars, with Irish poet Paul Muldoon, who won the international half of the award for Moy Sand and Gravel, the Toronto Star writes. Avison published her first poem in 1939.
June 8, 2003
New poetry series on BBC3
The BBC will start an eight-part poetry series on the 6th of July, Whine Gums, which will feature performance poets such as Benjamin Zephaniah, John Cooper Clarke and Lemn Sissay alongside poets like John Hegley, Wendy Cope, Michael Donaghy and Jackie Kay. "The overall impression of each themed 15-minute show is fast, funny, provocative and hugely entertaining," reports The Observer.
June 7, 2003
De Villepin publishes new collection
Dominique de Villepin, France's foreign minister, has published a new book of poetry, Éloge des voleurs de feu. The book, published by Gallimard, is "a massive 824-page meditation on the role of the poet in the modern world", according to a report in The GuardianDe Villepin has written various works of non-fiction, among which a political biography of Napoleon, and published several volumes of poetry. He thinks poetry and diplomacy perfect bedfellows, writes The Guardian, because they "both rely on the alchemy of paradox".
'Eliot’s antisemitism still relevant'
"Eliot was not a typical anti-semite. He was instead an extraordinary anti-semite," writes Anthony Julius, the author of TS Eliot, Anti-semitism and Literary Form, in an article in The Guardian published to coincide with the new edition of his book. Julius, who "faced a critical storm" when his book first appeared in 1995, argues that the question of Eliot’s antisemitism is still relevant to the interpretation of his works.
June 4, 2003
Chile’s ‘mother of nation’ scandal
Gabriela Mistral, Chile’s "mother of the nation" and the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, had a love-hate relationship with her home country, so the recent publication of her private journals reveals. The revelation has fuelled the controversy already raging in Chile about Mistral supposedly being a "closet lesbian", the New York Times reports. During the military dictatorship of general Pinochet, Mistral was "packaged as a symbol of social order and submission to authority", writes The Times.
Avison and Muldoon share Griffin Prize
New poetry series on BBC3
De Villepin publishes new collection
'Eliot’s antisemitism still relevant'
Chile’s ‘mother of nation’ scandal
June 13, 2003Avison and Muldoon share Griffin Prize
Margaret Avison, who at the age of 85 is one of Canada’s senior poets, yesterday evening accepted the Canadian Griffin Prize for her collection Concrete And Wild Carrot. She shares the prize, worth 80,000 Canadian dollars, with Irish poet Paul Muldoon, who won the international half of the award for Moy Sand and Gravel, the Toronto Star writes. Avison published her first poem in 1939.
June 8, 2003
New poetry series on BBC3
The BBC will start an eight-part poetry series on the 6th of July, Whine Gums, which will feature performance poets such as Benjamin Zephaniah, John Cooper Clarke and Lemn Sissay alongside poets like John Hegley, Wendy Cope, Michael Donaghy and Jackie Kay. "The overall impression of each themed 15-minute show is fast, funny, provocative and hugely entertaining," reports The Observer.
June 7, 2003
De Villepin publishes new collection
Dominique de Villepin, France's foreign minister, has published a new book of poetry, Éloge des voleurs de feu. The book, published by Gallimard, is "a massive 824-page meditation on the role of the poet in the modern world", according to a report in The GuardianDe Villepin has written various works of non-fiction, among which a political biography of Napoleon, and published several volumes of poetry. He thinks poetry and diplomacy perfect bedfellows, writes The Guardian, because they "both rely on the alchemy of paradox".
'Eliot’s antisemitism still relevant'
"Eliot was not a typical anti-semite. He was instead an extraordinary anti-semite," writes Anthony Julius, the author of TS Eliot, Anti-semitism and Literary Form, in an article in The Guardian published to coincide with the new edition of his book. Julius, who "faced a critical storm" when his book first appeared in 1995, argues that the question of Eliot’s antisemitism is still relevant to the interpretation of his works.
June 4, 2003
Chile’s ‘mother of nation’ scandal
Gabriela Mistral, Chile’s "mother of the nation" and the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, had a love-hate relationship with her home country, so the recent publication of her private journals reveals. The revelation has fuelled the controversy already raging in Chile about Mistral supposedly being a "closet lesbian", the New York Times reports. During the military dictatorship of general Pinochet, Mistral was "packaged as a symbol of social order and submission to authority", writes The Times.
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