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L to r: National Poetry Competition judges Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long (photo: Amaal Said)
Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long are the judges of the National Poetry Competition 2021, which is now open for entries
The National Poetry Competition, run by The Poetry Society, is one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for a single unpublished poem.
The three judges this year are outstanding and award-winning writers. Fiona Benson has won the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for a First Full Collection, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. David Constantine, who was an editor of Modern Poetry in Translation for ten years, has published over a dozen volumes of poetry, and is a recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Rachel Long, founder of the Octavia Poetry Collective for Women of Colour, has been recognised by the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and the Costa Poetry Aw
Chaitanya Tamhaneâs The Disciple is a Journey of Uncharted Dissonance
The Marathi film on the inner worlds of Hindustani classical music unfurls like a vilambit khyal set in Brahminical patriarchy.
A still from the movie The Disciple . Photo courtesy: Netflix
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âYour perspective is lacking. Itâs all scattered. Itâs all jumbled up. The music has no life in it.â
This is a brief dialogue between a teacher and his pupil.
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A statue honouring an unsung British hero who helped save hundreds of children destined to die in Nazi concentration camps has been seen for the first time.
Trevor Chadwick, nicknamed the Purbeck Schindler , helped Sir Nicholas Winton rescue 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia before the Second World War.
At great personal risk, the schoolteacher negotiated with the Gestapo to agree exit passes for children, one of whom went on to become a poet whose work has been praised by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.
The hero s involvement in the operation, known as the Czech kindertransport , was not uncovered until more than 50 years after the war.
From the NS archive: Just the poet to make us yawn again 24 May 1999: Ted Hughes made the Poet Laureateship seem exciting. But for his successor New Labour has gone to a tired, old, Oxbridge voice.
The position of Poet Laureate in England – that is, the national poet ostensibly chosen by Buckingham Palace, but in fact, in recent decades, nominated by the Government and approved by the Queen – has long been controversial for its intermingling of art and politics. Several notable names – Walter Scott and Philip Larkin among them – have turned down the offer (which offers in exchange an annual stipend and a large quantity of sherry). Ted Hughes had held the position for 14 years until his death in 1998; his successor was to be appointed by a New Labour government. Michael Glover, writing here in the New Statesman in 1999, speculates that this was the opportunity for a “People’s Poet”, or at least one more modern than the man who ended up in the job: Oxford-educated, co