Poetry Wales: Poetry, Critical Features and Reviews

The website has been rather quiet of late but, at long last, the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Poetry Prize has returned.

Entry forms will be available soon. In the meantime, entrants should be aware that:

The deadline will be later this year: June 30th
The judges will announce the winner on August 31st
The winning pamphlet will be published in January 2013

Otherwise, the conditions of entry will be the same, i.e.
– 20-24 poems per entry
– pen name and collection title on each page
– all entries must be typewritten, not handwritten
– entries must consist of original work, not previously published in collections or anthologies

Prize:
– Publication of your pamphlet by Seren, and royalties from sales
– promotion of your pamphlet to the media
– 25 copies of the pamphlet
– £250 cash prize

Cost of entry: £20 (or £15 to new and existing subscribers)

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The Hay Poetry Jamboree (click name to go to the website) celebrates its third birthday with another magnificent line-up of some of the best and most exciting poets on the contemporary scene, amongst them Allen Fisher, Carol Watts, Ralph Hawkins, Maggie O Sullivan, Sean Bonney and Kelvin Corcoran.

Robert Sheppard delivers the academic lecture, Elysium Gallery from Swansea present Bus Stop Cinema, an extravaganza of short films in the chapel. Come and sample the amazing atmosphere of this small but extremely telling festival.

The Jamboree runs from 18.30 on Thursday 2nd June until Saturday 4th June, at: Oriel Contemporary Art Gallery, Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay on Wye.

Poetry Wales, one of the sponsors, will be on sale throughout, and appearing on Saturday 4th at 2pm with Editor Zoe Skoulding, Steven Hitchins, Carrie Etter and Richard Gwyn (reading his translations of Latin American poets).

Come down and meet us! You can also find the…

Poetry Wales is delighted to be able to finally reveal the results of the 2011 Purple Moose Poetry Prize.

As always, it’s been a challenge for our judges, Zoe Skoulding and (judging the prize for the first time) John Barnie, but they have decided on a winner.

And the Winner is: Archimedes’ Principle by Rebecca Perry. Congratulations Rebecca!

In a slight break from the conventions of the last two competitions, the judges felt that, in addition to listing 3 or 4 highly commended entries, another collection warranted the recognition of being Runner-up: Facing Facts by Tim Love. Well done Tim.

Finally, the four Highly Commended collections are, in no particular order:
Personal Effect by Kate White
Capability Procedures by Ian McEwen
Yod by Cliff Forshaw
Braised Yello by Peter Gruffydd.

Well done to everyone who entered, and made this such an interesting competition. Keep writing, and keep reading Poetry Wales!

Competition details

Entries must comprise 20-24 original poems.

The…

Palas Print Pendref
Bangor High Street
March 17th 6.30pm

Launch of The Ground Aslant: Radical Landscape Poetry
A new anthology from Shearsman Books edited by Harriet Tarlo

With readings by:
Harriet Tarlo
Ian Davidson
Zoe Skoulding

In association with Poetry Wales

Free, all welcome.

This February, Richard Gwyn represented Poetry Wales at Granada International Poetry Festival in Nicaragua.

Chapter Arts Centre, Canton, Cardiff
Thursday, February 3, 7:30pm – 10:30pm

This special PW launch in association with Seren’s First Thursday series features a reading from Welcome Back to the Country, Graham Clifford’s prizewinning entry in the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Pamphlet competition.

Also reading will be Richard Gwyn, Lamorna Elmer, Patrick McGuinness and Zoe Skoulding.

There will be an open-mic session.

Copies of the new issue of Poetry Wales will be on sale. It features a dialogue on the multilingual poem by Pierre Joris and Jean Portante, Richard Gwyn on Latin American poetry, Tiffany Atkinson on W.S. Graham, and more poems from Wales and beyond.

Blue Sky Café, High Street / Stryd Fawr, Bangor,
Monday, January 31 · 8:00pm – 9:30pm

PW in association with Bangor University’s School of English is pleased to welcome Jamsine Donahaye, editor of Planet and author of Self-Portrait as Ruth (Salt).

Copies of the new issue of Poetry Wales will be on sale. It features a dialogue on the multilingual poem by Pierre Joris and Jean Portante, Richard Gwyn on Latin American poetry, Tiffany Atkinson on W.S. Graham, and more poems from Wales and beyond.

Join us to celebrate the publication of
SHIELD by Lyndon Davies
ILLENNIUM by John Goodby
with the authors

and the latest edition of POETRY WALES

PALAS PRINT PENDREF, Bangor
6.30pm, Wednesday, 27th October

POETRY WALES
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lansio barddoniaeth poetry launch

DERYN REES-JONES
KELLY GROVIER
DAMIAN WALFORD DAVIES
ELISABETH SALTER
TIFFANY ATKINSON
RICHARD MARGGRAF TURLEY
LYNDON DAVIES
PETER BARRY
MATTHEW FRANCIS
ZOË SKOULDING
JOHN BARNIE
EURIG SALISBURY
JASMINE DONAHAYE

amgueddfa ceredigion museum
aberystwyth dydd iau 6.00pm
thursday 14/10/10 free am ddim