Poetry Wales: Poetry, Critical Features and Reviews

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 Jamboree on Facebok.

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.

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

Hay Poetry Jamboree ran from June 3rd-5th, at Oriel Contemporary Art Gallery in Hay-on-Wye, with readings, interactive events, lectures, art and film.

Poetry Wales Editor Zoë Skoulding appeared on June 5th, with Randolph Healy, Ian Davidson, Jean Portante, Carol Watts, Kathryn Ashill, The Quantum Brothers, and more…

Other performers over the three days included Robert Minhinnick, Childe Roland (aka Peter Meilleur), Susie Wild, Keri Finlayson, Scott Thurston, Anthony Mellors, Claudia Azzola, Samantha Rhydderch, John Goodby, Geraldine Monk, Alan Halsey, Phil Maillard, Ric Hool, Richard Gwyn, Elisabeth Bletsoe and Caroline Bergvall.

For more information visit the Jamboree’s Facebook page.

Hay Poetry Jamboree was supported by: Academi Gymreig, The Dylan Thomas Centre, Poetry Wales, Swansea University School of Arts, Ty Llen / The Dylan Thomas Centre.

14th-21st February 2010: Granada International Poetry Festival, Nicaragua

Zoë reading at the Festival