“I had a sudden fantasy that the man and the bookshop only existed on Tuesday afternoons, that place and time had merged into one, and everyone else I passed on that brief walk to the leisure centre seemed to me part of that imaginary Tuesday world.”
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‘The Well at Winter Solstice’ and ‘The Europeans’ reviewed by Anna Lewis (Poetry Wales 55.2)
Anna Lewis reviews books by Eleanor Rees and David Clarke.

Poetry Wales launches Stay-at-Home Special Issue
“One thing Poetry Wales can give is poems, and what we can all, at the moment, let in safely – through this screen here and into our hearts – are words.”

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Maria Jastrzebska on the poems that inspire her
“As you see, back then it was such a man’s world. Thank heavens for finding Sylvia Plath, whom I read over and over. Things only got more complicated when I began coming out.”

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Wales Poetry Award Finalists Announced & Poetry Wales Party at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival 2019
Katherine Stansfield announces the Wales Poetry Award finalists live at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival, followed by the Poetry Wales launch party celebrating Jonathan Edwards’s first issue as editor.