John Burnside wins Laurel eco-poetry prize
John Burnside, who died earlier this year aged 69, has been posthumously awarded the 2024 Laurel prize for his collection Ruin, Blossom (Jonathan Cape), it was announced on Saturday night.
The £5,000 Laurel prize was established by the poet laureate Simon Armitage as an annual award for the best collection of nature or environmental poetry that highlights the climate crisis and raises awareness...
21st October 2024
New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock dies aged 90
The New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock, who celebrated her 90th birthday in February with the publication of her Collected Poems, has died in the North London Hospice in Finchley, after a short illness.
Fleur Adcock was born in Papakura, New Zealand in 1934, but lived much of her life in England, incl...
17th October 2024
Victoria Chang wins 2024 Forward prize for best collection
The American poet Victoria Chang has won the £10,000 Forward prize for best collection with ‘With My Back to the World’ (Corsair), which engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the ce...
11th October 2024
Posthumous collection by young poet is on TS Eliot prize shortlist
A posthumous collection by a young poet who was found dead after a festival last year is among the shortlisted books for this year’s £25,000 TS Eliot prize. Adam, which is Gboyega Odubanjo’s debut ful...
3rd October 2024
Record attempt, online open-mics, the poetry of a town: it's National Poetry Day!
The theme of this year’s National Poetry Day is ‘counting’ – and here’s just a taste of some of the events today. One event is an attempt to break the world record for the largest poetry lesson, colla...
2nd October 2024
Poetry student jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh painting
A young poet and climate activist who took part in a Just Stop Oil protest which involved throwing soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London in 2022 has been jailed.
...1st October 2024
