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Author: Frances Turpin
Frances is Poetry Wales' Magazine Manager
Katie Munnik: How I Wrote ‘The Invention of Rope’
“You might say that writing this poem was an act of unwinding”
Writing Advice from Cheltenham Poetry Festival
Iris Anne Lewis, Taz Rahman, Carrie Etter and Matthew Hollis share their favourite writing tips
Alyson Hallett: How I Wrote ‘Split Tongues’
“It seems to me that all language grows out of the dirt, the shapes of hills, the mud of the fields and barks of trees”
Spring 2024 Launch at Waterstones Cardiff
Join us on Tuesday 26th March 2024 for an evening of live poetry
Ode to a Telephone Box
Listed for the Dylan Thomas Award 2024, writer, poet and artist Joshua Jones describes the importance of a phone box that became a library in Roath, Cardiff
Christian Wethered: How I Wrote ‘this is a 16-mm film of seven minutes in which no words are spoken’
“I love her cinematic urgency, like a shape-shifting spotlight that never settles on its subject”
Susanna Galbraith: How I Wrote ‘poem for an imaginary marriage’
“All of the images had come together and started to work on each other, and then that word seemed a little like a lightbulb that could help illuminate the poem, sort of let one question fall across it, maybe creating a sort of (albeit fragmented and nebulous) whole”
Laura Warner: How I Wrote ‘I love you, Helen Skelton’
“Within this poem there is definitely a sense of disclosing a long-held secret – a secret desire, perhaps – that fantasy of rummaging in the Blue Peter Badges, whatever that might mean. It’s as if the speaker has finally found their moment to say something, so they are going to say it all, let it spill out.”