Category: Poetry
Commonwealth of Nations Announces Its First-Ever Poet Laureate
by Mark Williams | Jul 2, 2025 | Poetry | 0 |
Professor Selina Tusitala Marsh is the Commonwealth’s first Poet Laureate, set to amplify diverse voices and foster change through verse until 2027.
Read MoreGalician Poet Chus Pato Wins 2024 Spanish National Poetry Prize
by Mark Williams | Sep 21, 2024 | Awards, Ibero-America, Poetry | 1 |
Chus Pato’s works have been widely translated and published abroad, including in Argentina, Chile, Portugal, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Russia, France, and Belgium. One cannot help but notice no English-language countries make the list.
Read MoreUAE – The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre has launched the complete “Oyoon Al She’er Al Arabi” Arabic poetry series for World Poetry Day on March 21
by Mark Williams | Mar 26, 2023 | Abu Dhabi, Arab publishing, MENA publishing, Middle East, Poetry | 0 |
The series includes anthologies of Arabic poetry from the pre-Islamic era to the 18th century,...
Read MoreAn interview with Nigeria’s Performance Poet Otor Matthew (via Zoe Writes)
by Mark Williams | Sep 14, 2020 | Africa, Global Publishing, Nigeria, Poetry | 0 |
Spoken Word Poetry, also known as Performance Poetry, is a recent, developing and fast-paced area...
Read MoreZimbabwe’s “Black Poet” appointed UNESCO-Rila affiliate
by Mark Williams | Jun 13, 2020 | Africa, Global Publishing, Poetry, The global book market | 0 |
The Unesco-Rila affiliate artist project has appointed Zimbabwean poet and author Mbizo Chirasha...
Read MoreFestival Poetas D'Alma – A look at Mozambique's flourishing poetry scene
by Mark Williams | Jul 26, 2019 | Africa, Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Mozambique, Poetry, The global book market | 0 |
As this post goes live the CCMA – Mozambican-German Cultural Center, Goethe-Zentrum...
Read MoreStart The Day Global – 5 October 2018
by Mark Williams | Oct 5, 2018 | Africa, Arab Literature (in English), Botswana, Brazil, Global Publishing, India, Kuwait, Middle East, Poetry, South America, South Asia, The global book market, UK | 0 |
We Start The Day Global today with e-visits to Botswana, India, Brazil, Kuwait and the UK. First,...
Read MoreTen not to be missed World Poetry Day stories from around the globe
by Mark Williams | Mar 21, 2018 | Africa, Arab Literature (in English), Global Publishing, India, Iran, Middle East, Pakistan, Poetry, Publishing Brief, The global book market, UK | 0 |
World Poetry Day has been celebrated on March 21 since 1999, and every year it seems more and more...
Read MorePrint sales up. A swing from mass merchandiser to retail and club
by Mark Williams | Oct 11, 2017 | Children's Books, North America, Poetry, Print, Publishing News | 0 |
While some industry commentators believe print is dead the print sales numbers continue to suggest otherwise, and publishers continue to defy the odds and report profits. Just this week Simon & Schuster UK inconsiderately...
Read MoreA million poetry books sold in 2016
by Mark Williams | Oct 10, 2017 | Europe, Global Publishing, Poetry, Social Media, Social Publishing | 0 |
It’s a funny old world. Publishing is supposedly on its knees, decimated by digital, attention spans are supposedly shortening by the day and no-one reads any more, and video streaming and other distractions are wiping out...
Read MoreInstagram Poets that outsell Grisham and Atwood
by Mark Williams | Oct 4, 2017 | Global Publishing, North America, Poetry, Social Media, Social Publishing | 1 |
It was never meant to be like this. In those dark and gloomy days of 2011-13 it seemed to many observers that mainstream publishing had no future and digital would not just disrupt, but destroy publishing as we knew it. Not only...
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