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 full collection, was published by Faber & Faber earlier this year. The 27-year-old British-Nigerian poet, who was born and raised in east London, also published three poetry pamphlets: While I Yet Live (...
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, collaborating with poet Laura Mucha to co-write a poem about ‘what counts’ with 60,000-plus seven-12-year...
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
