Canada's most generous poetry award, founded by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin.
Title: In the Locked Room – opera with libretto by David Harsent
Location: London, England
Description: This one-act opera, an adaptation of a short story by Thomas Hardy, explores the power of the imagination and the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Composer Huw Watkins teams up with poet and librettist David Harsent on this production.
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Start Date: September 27, 2012
End Date: September 29, 2012
Title: Governor General’s Literary Awards winners’ ceremony
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Description: Canada’s national literary awards celebrate literature for all tastes and ages by honouring the best English-language and the best French-language books in each of 7 categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text), children’s literature (illustration), and translation.
The winners will be honoured at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Thursday, November 28.
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Date: November 28, 2012
Title: Governor General’s Literary Awards winners announced
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Description: Canada’s national literary awards celebrate literature for all tastes and ages by honouring the best English-language and the best French-language books in each of 7 categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text), children’s literature (illustration), and translation.
The winners will be announced Tuesday, November 13, during a press conference at the Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique du Québec in Montréal.
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Date: November 13, 2012
Title: Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists announced
Location: Canada
Description: The Governor General’s Literary Awards 2012 finalists will be announced on Tuesday, October 2 at 10 am, on the Canada Council website. Canada’s national literary awards celebrate literature for all tastes and ages by honouring the best English-language and the best French-language books in each of 7 categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text), children’s literature (illustration), and translation.
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Date: October 2, 2012
Title: International Translation Day
Description: The International Federation of Translators (FIT) announces the theme for the 2012 celebration of International Translation Day (ITD): “Translation as Intercultural Communication”. Learn more here.
Date: September 30, 2012
Title: Stars of Contemporary Poetry workshop
Location: Winchester, England
Description: This workshop aims to use the reading of contemporary poetry as a springboard for improving your own writing, as finding out how you can become a published poet. In a relaxed, friendly, group, you will read and discuss a range of excellent poems by leading lights of the UK poetry scene, then use them to inspire and improve your own poetry.
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Date: September 29, 2012
Title: Eliot’s Burnt Norton Day
Location: Gloucestershire, England
Description: It was on a late summer day in September 1934 when, out on his latest country walk with Emily Hale – who was very important to him and had come from America to stay with relatives in Chipping Campden – T S Eliot and she ventured off the road, walked through the woods and found themselves in the upper garden of the estate of a manor house, Burnt Norton.
Visit on Saturday September 22nd the gardens (normally closed to the public) of Burnt Norton in Gloucestershire, where Eliot drew his inspiration for the first of his Four Quartets.
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Date: September 22, 2012
Title: Charles Simic reads at Bucks County Community College
Location: Newtown, Pennsylvania, US
Description: Elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2000, Charles Simic’s many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Griffin Poetry Prize. He is currently Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.
This reading is free and open to the public. Learn more here.
Date: December 7, 2012
Title: Brunel University African Poetry Prize submission deadline
Location: Africa
Description: The Brunel University African Poetry Prize is a major new poetry prize of £3000 aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa. The prize is sponsored by Brunel University and partnered by Commonwealth Writers, the Africa Centre UK, and the African Poetry Book Fund USA. British-Nigerian writer, Bernardine Evaristo, has initiated the prize.
Date: November 30, 2012
Title: Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets submission deadline
Location: Africa
Description: The African Poetry Series has been made possible through seed funding from philanthropists, Laura and Robert F. X. Sillerman, whose generous contributions have facilitated the establishment of the African Poetry Book Fund. Mr. and Mrs. Sillerman have also welcomed the use of their name for the First Book Prize for African Poets.
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Date: November 15, 2012