Announcing the three Award Winners of the Poetry Wales Award 2024-25
Author: Frances Turpin
Frances is Poetry Wales' Magazine Manager
Poetry Wales Award 2025-26 | The Shortlist
Get to know the shortlisted poets and buy your ticket for our Awarding Ceremony
VERVE Poetry Festival
At the Birmingham Hippodrome and online 13 – 16 February
Betty Doyle: How I Wrote ‘Announcements’
“It raced through my mind, unlocking all the bars, yelling ‘no compromise – you must and can and will write’”
Content warning: pregnancy loss, childlessness
Poetry Wales Pushcart Prize Nominations 2024
We are excited to announce our nominations for this year’s Pushcart Prize.
Mick Felton Obituary
In memoriam.
Peter E Murphy: How I Wrote ‘Bad History’
“I have a hiraeth for Wales which, cliché alert! nourishes my soul and gets my muse all excited.”
Content warning: mentions of suicide and addiction.
Forward Prize Commended Poems
Meet the Poetry Wales poets featured in the Forward Book of Poetry 202
Seren Books | 2024 Poetry Call-Out
Seren Books are open to submissions for poetry collections and poetry pamphlets until 5PM Monday 30th September 2024