As I have written before, World Poetry Day was declared by UNESCO in 1999, with the goal of honouring "poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry, foster the convergence between poetry and other arts such as theatre, dance, music and painting, and raise the visibility of poetry in … Continue reading World Poetry Day 2026: More poetry on my TBR pile
World Poetry Day
World Poetry Day 2025 – a day late
World Poetry Day was declared by UNESCO in 1999. It is a day, says UNESCO "to honour poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry, foster the convergence between poetry and other arts such as theatre, dance, music and painting, and raise the visibility of poetry in the media". In … Continue reading World Poetry Day 2025 – a day late
Favourite quotes: from a Musica Viva program
Back in 2015, I started a little ad hoc Favourite Quotes series but so far have only written four posts. This is not because I have a dearth of favourite quotes but because I don't find time to share them. However, in the program for the most recent Musica Viva concert we attended, I came across … Continue reading Favourite quotes: from a Musica Viva program
Monday musings on Australian literature: World Poetry Day, on anthologies
Last week, Brona (This Reading Life) wrote a post on Eve Langley's poem, "Native-born", in which she shared the statement from Wikipedia that it appears regularly in Australian anthologies. As I responded to Brona, I checked my three "modern" Australian poetry anthologies and only found it in the most obvious one, The Penguin book of … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: World Poetry Day, on anthologies
World Poetry Day 2020
I have written two World Poetry Day posts before, in 2016 and 2018, so why not again in 2020, particularly given, more than any year, we are probably in need of hearing what poets have to say - of being soothed, inspired, entertained, or yes, even admonished by them. Awarnessdays.com says of World Poetry Day: … Continue reading World Poetry Day 2020
My literary week (15), readings and readers
As regular readers here know, my "literary week" posts are irregular affairs, usually inspired by something I really want to share (or document for my own benefit!) And so it is this week … Reading Boochani in public ... and related thoughts I was especially pleased, given the events in Christchurch last Friday week, that … Continue reading My literary week (15), readings and readers
World Poetry Day 2018
Did you realise that today, March 21, is World Poetry Day? I'm not asking this to catch you out but more because I wonder how well promoted it is - particularly here in Australia? I must say that, as in previous years, I've heard very little about it. Perhaps, though, if I went to my … Continue reading World Poetry Day 2018
Monday musings on Australian literature: World Poetry Day
Well, folks, Trove has let me down, which is a very rare occurrence when I'm doing historical research. I looked for the phrase "world poetry day" and I looked for all the words "world", "poetry" and "day", but nothing apparently relevant appeared. Hmmm, because ... Interestingly, a Google search did retrieve a photograph on flickr of a … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: World Poetry Day
Whispering Gums 