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Tony Conran and His Magnetic Field

by Ian Gregson

On Tony Conran by Jeremy Hooker

Tony Conran’s Last Reading

by FionaOwen

Learning to Love Dafydd

by Gwyneth Lewis

Crocodiles and Chowder: International

Poetry in Bangor by Lyndon Davies

Poetic Anatomies: Objects, Bodies, Oralities by Katherine Stansfield

Zones of the Coalfield Interior 3

by Steven Hitchins

Reviews

Alex Pryce on Gillian Clarke and Anne Stevenson

Dai George on Emily Hinshelwood and Anna Lewis

Alison Brackenbury on John Barnie

John Goodby on Keidrych Rhys

Nia Davies on JoaquínO.Giannuzzi and Hélène Dorion

Giles Goodland on Childe Roland, Steven Hitchins and Graham Hartill

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Zones of the Coalfield Interior: Walking and Collage by Steven Hitchins

On Penillion: a brief extract from a work on the form by John Kinsella

Samantha Wynne Rhydderch in conversation with Alice Entwistle

Poems by:

Nia Davies, Rosie Breese, Philip Gross, Ruth Bidgood, Dannie Abse, Graham Hartill, David Greenslade, Paul Henry, Peter Gruffydd, Mike Jenkins, Hazel Mutch, Lydia Macpherson, Robert Vas Dias, George Vulturescu Translated from Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Olimpia Iacob, Stewart Sanderson, Rody Gorman, Marion Tracy, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Aiden Semmens, Dylan Harris, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Annemarie Austin, Christian Ward, David Hart, Kona Macphee, Simon Rees, Cath Nichols, Simon Perril

Reviews

Alex Pryce on Rhian Edwards, John Fraser Williams, and 10 of the Best from Parthian

Lyndon Davies on David Greenslade and two Boiled String pamphlets

Rhys Trimble on Meirion Jordan

Alice Entwistle on Damian Walford Davies

Alison Brackenbury on Tishani Doshi and Samantha Wynne Rhydderch

Katherine Stansfield on Robert Minhinnick

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Poems by:

Peter Finch, Isobel Armstrong, Kit Fan, Robert Minhinnick, Keri Finlayson, Ernst Jandl translated by W.D. Jackson, Wojciech Bonowicz translated by Elzbieta Wojcik-Leese, David Foster Morgan, Emma Danes, Sian Thomas, Ruth Bidgood, William Searle, Matthew Bearne, Mark Blayney, Andrew McNeillie, Malene Engelund, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Andrew Pidoux, Peter Lo Bianco, Jenny Lewis, Dai George, Joey Connolly, Carl Griffin, Maggie Bevan, Phil Knight, Robert Nisbet

Reviews:

Molly James on Philip Gross and Tiffany Atkinson
Kym Martindale on John Kinsella and Peter Robinson
Alison Brackenbury on Rebecca Perry
Steven Hitchins on four pamphlets
Claire Crowther on Zoe Brigley and Rhys Trimble
Hywel Griffiths on Dic Jones

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

The winner of the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Poetry Prize 2012 has now been chosen!

The judges have selected Maps and Love Song for Mina Loy by Joanne Ashcroft as the winner. Congratulations Joanne!

The winning pamphlet will be published in January 2013

The two runners-up are:
A Boat called Annalise by Lynne Hjelmgaard and
The Back of Things by Emma Danes

Congratulations to Lynne and Emma too!

Features:

Worth their salt: Younger British Poets by Dai George
Cats in the Throat: a bilingual bestiary by Caroline Bergvall
Scribbling In That Other Tongue, Agnes Lehoczky
Bilingualism: Slippage of a phoneme or two by Nerys Williams

Poems by:

Gwyneth Lewis, Harry Guest, Damian Walford Davies, John Goodby, Emily Critchley, Mary-Lou Soutar-Hynes, Steven Hitchins, Ness Owen, Diana Gruffydd Williams, Sophie Shanahan, Caroline Price, Agnes Lehoczky, Nerys Williams, Drew Milne, Richard James Jones, Tony Curtis, Grahame Davies, Niels Hav, Louise Rosengreen, Peter Robinson, J Brookes, Helen Tookey, Sarah Lindon, Andrew Taylor, John Barnie, Tim Cresswell, Jackie Wills, Peter Finch

Reviews:

Alison Brackenbury on Pure Hustle by Kate Potts and The Salt Harvest by Eoghan Walls
Claire Crowther on The Salt Book of Younger Poets and The Best British Poetry 2011
Lyndon Davies on J.L. Williams and Nathan Thompson
Steven Hitchins on Corrupt Press.
Katherine Stansfield on Ifor Thomas and Christien Gholson
Huw Meirion Edwards on Meirion Evans

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Features:

The Buzz of the Bee through Poetry by Dai George, followed by a Q&A with John Burnside
Where Mediterranean Voices Meet by Teleri Williams
Eurig Salisbury on Recordings from Arcadia: India and Wales
Greg Hill on Jean Earle, David Jones and Bediveres horse

Poems:

Nia Davies, Ellie Evans, Marianne Burton, Richard Poole, Mark Goodwin, Rhys Trimble, Charles Wilkinson, JL Williams, Stephen Payne, Samira Negrouche and Anissa Mohammedi translated by Teleri Williams, Annamaria Ferramosca translated by Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Raphael Urweider, Wayne Burrows, John Freeman, Martyn Crucefix, Ian McEwen, Robin Ngangom, Ben Smith, Carrie Etter, Alison Brackenbury, Harry Guest, Anna Woodford, Ric Hool, Paul Groves, Daisy Behagg, Cliff Forshaw, Steve Griffiths, James Russell, Peter Oram, Sheenagh Pugh, John Lee Grenfell, Eluned Rees

Reviews

Katherine Stansfield on Ellie Evans and Judy Brown
John Barnie on Tim Liardet and Andrew McNeillie
Molly James on Gwyneth Lewis and Birdbook
Robin Chapman on T.H. Parry-Williams
Meirion Jordan on Will Stone and Writing King Kong by Robert Seatter
Peter Robinson on John James

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Features:
Out into the unknown: Gwyneth Lewis and Science by Alex Pryce
The Parable of Tristan Tzara and the Callow Youth by Lee Harwood
John James and J.H. Prynne by Peter Robinson

Poems:
Rebecca Perry, Stephen Knight, Lowri Emlyn, Dafydd John Pritchard translated by Eurig Salisbury, Ian Davidson, John Kinsella, Robert Sheppard, Peter Jaeger, Ian Seed, Chris Emery, Lee Duggan, Philip Gross, Siriol Troup, Emily Hinshelwood, Paul Henry, Chris Bendon, Jim Goar, Richard Owens, Nathan Thompson, Krystyna Milobedzka translated by Elzbieta Wojcik-Leese, Peter Hughes, Mario Petrucci, Christien Gholson, David Foster-Morgan.

Reviews:
Alison Brackenbury on Nerys Williams and Kelly Grovier
Graham Hartill on the Heat poets CD
Robert Sheppard on Carol Watts and Caroline Bergvall
Karen Owen on Menna Elfyn
Zoe Brigley on Slanderous Tongues
Claire Crowther on A True Prize by John Goodby, and Andrea Bianchi, translated by Silvana Siverio
Matthew Jarvis on A Year of Flowers by John Barnie

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Myth and poetry, three essays by three poets:
Orpheus. Eurydice. Blanchot by Lyndon Davies
Mything (presumed dead) by Kevin Mills
Utterance by Wendy Mulford

Enigmas of the Night: Reflections on Latin American Poetry, Part 2 by Richard Gwyn accompanied by translations of work by the newer generation of outstanding poets: Jorge Fondebrider, Andres Neumann, Siomara Espana and Wendy Guerra

Poems

Julia Reckless, Jon Mitchell, Sian Melangell Dafydd, Janet Sutherland, Iztok Osojnik translated by Maria Jastrzebska and Ana Jelnikar, Richard Kemp, Jeremy Hooker, Samantha Wynne Rhydderch, Kevin Mills, Anne Cluysenaar, Lyndon Davies, Sarah Westcott, John Wedgwood Clarke, Chris Jones, Maitreyabandhu, Jos Smith, Anthony Rowland, Steve Spence, Peter Gruffydd, Richard Parker, Will Slocombe, Jane Yeh, Dafydd John Pritchard translated by Robert Lacey, Vuyelwa Carlin

Reviews

David Hart on Another Country: Haiku Poetry From Wales, and One of our Skylarks by Alison Bielski
Nerys Williams on Divining for Starters by Carrie Etter and The Ring by Lynne Hjelmgaard
Zoe Brigley on Night Watch by Ana Becciu, and Alejandra Pizarnik’s Selected Poems
Andy Brown on The Ground Aslant
John Taylor on Zigzag by Anthony Rudolf and Some Times by Harry Guest
Siwan Rosser on Cerddi Jane Ellis

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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 Jamboree on Facebok.