“I hope there are fleeting readerly moments at the end of, and between, lines throughout the volume where the stomach jumps or the mind reaches for something that doesn’t quite materialise around the racing bend of the line, or materialises in an uncannily different form.”
Author: Frances Turpin
Frances is Poetry Wales' Magazine Manager
Simon Maddrell: How I Wrote ‘Being Young & Queer: A Zuihitsu’
“Language is culture, history, social practice, politics, everything. It is both a product and source of all those things, and its loss is all the greater for it”
Introducing the Contributing Editors for Spring 2024
Get to know Taylor Edmonds and Tangie Mitchell, contributing editors for Poetry Wales 59.3
Nadine El-Enany: How I Wrote ‘Hobson’s choice’
“The beginning of a poem matters to me very much. I want to pull the reader right into the thicket. My favourite poems are those that snag me from the first line and make it impossible to pull myself free.”
A Poem for St Dwynwen’s Day
Courtesy of Isabelle Evans
Tracey Rhys: How I Wrote ‘He tells me how trees communicate…’
“I think that when we have children, many of us tend to turn the natural world into fairyland for a while, and share their entrancement with it.”
Sarah Wimbush ‘STRIKE’
Sarah Wimbush’s new collection ‘STRIKE’ features two poems from Poetry Wales 59.1 and launches at the National Coal Mining Museum on Sunday 28th January
Steve Logan: How I Became a Poet
“I began to write poems and music in earnest to save my life”
Wales Young Poets Award – Deadline Extended | Gwobr Beirdd Ifanc Cymru – Dyddiad Cau Wedi’i Ymestyn
The deadline for the Wales Young Poets Award has been extended until 29th February 2024
Mae dyddiad cau Gwobr Beirdd Ifanc Cymru wedi’i ymestyn tan 29 Chwefror