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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] Since its inception, it has engaged millions of people across the country with ...
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 ...
365 Poems for Life was published on National Poetry Day 2023. A Poem for Every Christmas Day has its publication day 7 November 2024. Esiri sat on the advisory board of The Times/The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival 2014–2106, currently sits on the Children's Poetry Summit and is an advisor to the organisation National Poetry Day ...
Lindsay started writing poetry in 2002 at the age of 20. [4] Her first full poetry collection to be published was "The Things You Leave Behind," which Red Squirrel Press published in 2011. She was BBC Slam Champion in 2012. [2] Following this debut, she released pamphlet-length collections, "The Eejit Pit" in 2012 and "Ire & Salt" in 2015. [5]
The National Poetry Centre of the United Kingdom is a charity, registered in 2022, which plans to open a centre in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in 2027. Its trustees include Poet Laureate Simon Armitage , who has said "My highest ambition when appointed Poet Laureate was to create a national home for poetry in my native West Yorkshire."
In 1997, Agbabi's first poetry collection, R.A.W (1995), received the Excelle Literary Award. [22] In 2000, she was one of 10 poets commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to write a poem for National Poetry Day. [23] In 2004, she featured on the Poetry Book Society list of Next Generation poets. [24] [25]
Poet in the City is a London-based arts organisation founded in 1998 as a project of the Poetry Society; [1] it became an independent charity in 2006. [2]Poet in the City collaborates with partners from the arts and beyond, from the Barbican Centre, Kings Place and the Royal Opera House to St Paul's Cathedral, the Francis Crick Institute and St Pancras International.
Something Understood was a weekly radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1995 to 2024 which dealt with topics of religion, spirituality, and the larger questions of human life, and took a particular spiritual theme, exploring it through speech, music, prose, and poetry. It was broadcast early on Sunday mornings with a repeat late on ...