“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.”
Courtesy of Isabelle Evans
“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’s new collection ‘STRIKE’ features two poems from Poetry Wales 59.1 and launches at the National Coal Mining Museum on Sunday 28th January
“I began to write poems and music in earnest to save my life”
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
“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”
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!
“[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”
