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‘After Sinnott’ by Robert Walton | From Poetry Wales 59.1
A long poem by Robert Walton, a section of which was published in Poetry Wales 59.1
Disease and Poetry
Rushika Wick describes a new anthology of writing on the theme of disease
‘Intricate seawhirl’: Dylan Thomas on Dylan Day 2023
“To unlock the vast majority of these poems we only need to know that Thomas saw human beings as inextricably bound up with the rest of the cosmos, from microbes to the galaxies”
In Memory of Ruth Bidgood, 1922-2022
Photo Credit: Bernard Mitchell In the wake of the recent passing of one of Wales’ finest poets, her friend and fellow poet Merryn Williams shares some words about Ruth Bidgood It was on a rainy day in the Black Mountains, looking for something to read, that I picked up a battered copy of Ruth Bidgood’s…
Poetry Wales Presents Translation Challenge 2020’s Winning Translation
Translation Challenge (into English) has been held annually for over a decade alongside its sister competition ‘Her Gyfieithu’ (into Welsh) with the aims of encouraging the development of creative translation in Wales, internationalising our literature scenes and strengthening the relationship between Wales and the world. Each year a different source language and text are selected,…
Tryweryn at 55: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch’s ‘71,200 Megalitres’ with a new introduction by the author, and online exclusive essay by Sharon Morris – Poetry Wales 56.1 Summer 2020
Flooded or Drowned? – An Introduction to ‘71,200 Megalitres’ In November 2005 I was on a writing residency at Hawthornden Castle outside Edinburgh. One afternoon I happened to catch part of the BBC Radio 4 programme Open Country, in which the speaker was visiting ‘the Tryweryn reservoir’ to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of ‘the flooding’…
Michael Arnold Williams, extract from ‘Hands, Wonderful Hands’ Poetry Wales 56.1 Summer 2020
Dear Miss Bane, I’m not yet quite four years old, and I’m standing in the yard of your school. I’m saying your school, but of course I know it isn’t really yours, but I’m sure you’ll know what I’m meaning. Anyway, the yard of somebody’s school, anybody’s school, everybody’s school or nobody’s school maybe, nobody’s…
Di Slaney on the 10 poems that inspire her
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupry I’ve been asked to answer an excellent question about poems, books or poets who have influenced me, and…