Poetry centre and old Ikea get share of £67m culture fund
Plans to convert a Leeds church into a National Poetry Centre and a former Ikea in Coventry into a visitor attraction are ...
Poet laureate Simon Armitage welcomes £5m government investment for first-ever National Poetry Centre
Poet laureate Simon Armitage has welcomed the news that the government is investing £5m into the development of the National ...
University of Leeds15h
Cultural hub for Leeds as poetry centre funding confirmed
A new National Poetry Centre, spearheaded by Professor of Poetry and Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, is to receive a ...
The Bookseller1d
National Poetry Centre to receive £5m in government investment
The government has pledged £5m in support of the National Poetry Centre’s new home in Leeds.
WBUR15d
Massachusetts begins searching for its first poet laureate
Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in Massachusetts for the first time. "Poets and poetry have had a profound role in our state's history," Healey ...
TwinCities.com11d
Turning a new leaf: Poet laureate resigns
Ready to give new voices a chance to fill the role she’s held for a decade, Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen is resigning. Sutphen, 71, is the state’s second poet laureate, beginning in ...
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At long last a poet laureate will bring verse to people of Massachusetts
A first ever Massachusetts poet laureate will be selected sometime this year. Poetry "enriches the civic life of ...