POETS’ ALERT: 2024 international W.B. Yeats Poetry Prize now open for submissions. 1st prize $1,000, 2nd prize $500, plus honorable mentions. Ends Feb. 1, 2024. Winners announced in early March. Submit your poetry here: https://yeats.submittable.com
William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in Stockholm in December 1923. Thiswas an event that in many ways solidified Yeats’s place as one of the writers of the twentiethcentury, both home and abroad. The award placed him in the company of such luminaries asRabindranath Tagore, Rudyard Read more…
Sirshendu Majumdar’s new book has recently been published by Routledge! This book presents a set of original letters exchanged between Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the eminent Irish poet and theosophist, James Henry Cousins. Through these letters, the volume explores their shared Read more…
Ragini Mohite’s new book addresses W.B. Yeats’s and Rabindranath Tagore’s engagements with identity, nationalism, and the literary and cultural traditions of Ireland and India. It offers a fresh critical perspective on their work from the beginning of the twentieth century, the point at which their international collaborations most significantly influence Read more…