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Poetry at Waterloo Station for National Poetry Day 1994. National Poetry Day is a British campaign to promote poetry, including public performances. Annually, on the first Thursday of October, events, readings and performances take place across the UK. [1] National Poetry Day was founded in 1994 by William Sieghart. [2]
From West Heath, Birmingham Iona Mandal is the 2022-2024 Young Birmingham Poet Laureate, replacing Fatma Mohiuddin. Iona won her first poetry award – the Children's Book Show Award for Poetry 2013 - at the age of 7. She is the first Bengali of Indian diaspora to win he Birmingham role. [5] 2005 to 2006 - Helen Monks; 2006 to 2007 - Jennifer ...
The tradition to keep an October date for national or international poetry day celebrations still holds in many countries. [2] The United Kingdom generally uses the first Thursday in October, [ 3 ] but elsewhere a different October, or even sometimes a November date, is celebrated.
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In 1903, the Bank Holiday (Ireland) Act added 17 March, Saint Patrick's Day, as a bank holiday in Ireland only. [8] New Year's Day did not become a bank holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland until 1 January 1974. Boxing Day did not become a bank holiday in Scotland until 1974. [9]
From Veterans Day to Christmas, here are the dates of the 2024 federal holidays. New Year’s Day: Monday, ... Memorial Day: Monday, May 27. Juneteenth National Independence Day: Wednesday, June 19.
In 1994, he founded National Poetry Day, [5] a day of celebration of verse on the first Thursday of October, which has become an established fixture in the cultural calendar. Events take place in schools, pubs, arts centres, bookshops, libraries, buses, trains and Women's Institutes, and the day is the focus for media attention for poetry. [ 6 ]
Former President Barack Obama gave federal employees an extra day off but instead of Christmas Eve, December 26, 2014 was deemed a holiday. Former President George W. Bush also marked Dec. 24 as a ...