“Given [the constraint of short form], I like to utilise materials that, in conjunction with the short text, offer additional meaning to ultimately make the poems multi-layered, esoteric and more nuanced”
Author: Frances Turpin
Frances is Poetry Wales' Magazine Manager
How I Write a Poem: Best Writing Tips of 2023
A look back at some of the best writing tips from our How I Write a Poem interviews in 2023. Share your favourites with us!
Anna Blasiak: How I Wrote ‘EMBROIDERY. HAFT’
“[I]nstead of having two separate language versions of the poem, I ended up with one, which brings the languages together… This, I think, reflects how the brain of a bilingual/multilingual person works”
Muskaan Razdan: How I Wrote ‘Duplex’
“I love how agile and stripped back it is as a form. It doesn’t allow you to dwell, chewing away unnecessary information and only leaving the reader with the heart of the idea”
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Poetry Wales Winter Holiday Reading for Summer 2023 | Zoë Brigley Reflects
Poetry Wales Editor Zoë Brigley reflects on our Summer 2023 issue
Rachel Carney: How I Wrote ‘Unremarkable’
“The poem is an attempt to look back as well as forward, to acknowledge the creativity of women past, present and future”
Our Pushcart Prize 2023 Nominees
Read the poems we’ve nominated for the Pushcart Prize
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Anthony Wade: How I Wrote ‘A Lost Voice’
“It is in the editing-amending-polishing phases of the original thought-story-memory that I listen to the rhythms of the language, to the unfolding of the scenes, if more than one, and sense when there is what I think of as a key change, almost as though it is music”