George Szirtes, a contributor to Issue 1 of Interlitq, awarded the 2013 Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) Poetry Award

George Szirtes

George Szirtes, the Hungarian-born who was a contributor to Issue 1 of Interlitq, has been cited in “Szirtes wins poetry award” (Benedicte Page, The Bookseller, 01.05.13): “Hungarian-born poet George Szirtes’ In the Land of Giants, illustrated by Helen Szirtes and published by Salt, has won the 2013 Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) Poetry Award.”

Helen Szirtes

Andrew Motion, a contributor to issue 5 of Interlitq, one of “Hull’s cultural alumni”

Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion, the former Poet Laureate who contributed an example of his poetry to Issue 5 of Interlitq, has been cited in”Celebrating culture in austerity (Darryl Stephenson, Local Government Chronicle, 20.05.13): “Hull’s cultural alumni past and present include some of Britain’s greatest poets, from Andrew Marvell to Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion, film makers like Mark Herman and playwrights such as John Godber.”

Hull

Andrew Marvell

Philip Larkin

Mark Herman

John Godber

Andrew Motion, a contributor to Issue 5 of Interlitq, hosted a poetry evening in aid of two charities working with young people in Camden, North London

 

 

Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion, the former Poet Laureate who contributed an example of his poetry to Issue 5 of Interlitq, has been cited in “Former Poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion raises money for two Camden youth charities” (Rachael Getzels, Ham & High, 14.05.13): “Sir Andrew Motion hosted a poetry evening in aid of two charities working with young people in Camden. The former Poet Laureate, who lives in Kentish Town, led an evening of entertainment with readings and music at Lauderdale House in Highgate Hill, Highgate, on Tuesday. The event was in aid of the New Horizon Youth Centre, which is based in Charlton Street, Somers Town, and works with homeless and at-risk youngsters, and the New Diorama Theatre in Regent’s Place, Euston, which supports community theatre groups.”

Former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion (far right). Also in attendance were mayors and mayoress’ from London Boroughs of Croydon, Haringey, Greenwich, Redbridge, Richmond, Havering and Merton. Picture: Polly Hancock

When Robert Pinsky, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, asked Americans to name their favorite poems in 1997, Trees ranked in the top 10

 

Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky, the U.S. poet who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and who contributed poetry to Issue 7 of Interlitq, has been cited in “Shift in education priorities could topple poem ‘Trees’” (Rick Hampson, USA Today, 06.05.13): “When U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky asked Americans to name their favorite poems in 1997, Trees ranked in the top 10. In a Google Internet survey last year by blogger M. H. Forsyth of the most quoted lines of English poetry, Trees‘ opening couplet was No. 26.”

Joyce Kilmer

 

 

Reviewing Matthew Francis’s Muscovy, Aingeal Clare evokes the “icy mystique” of Arctic poems by Lavinia Greenlaw, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq

Lavinia Greenlaw

Lavinia Greenlaw, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, and a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, has been cited in “Muscovy by Matthew Francis – review” (Aingeal Clare, The Guardian, 10.05.13): Francis’s Marvell is less interested in diplomacy than colours and textures, food and furs (“you must cosset the person / in marten, sable, fox or beaver, and sleep / shivering on sheepskin in the furry dark”). As in the Arctic poems of Lavinia Greenlaw’s Minsk, the northern latitudes come trailing an icy mystique: “The cold finds you in your sleep. You flee from it / the way one does in dreams, not touching the ground, / across a flatness that is always the same.”

Matthew Francis

Andrew Marvell