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10 Unmissable Poems Free Digital Download! (Part 5 of 5)

Posted on August 9, 2019May 15, 2023

Read the final two of our top ten unmissable poems published in Poetry Wales from the last 5 years. To celebrate 55 years of publishing poetry, every Friday for the past four weeks we’ve released two poems from the list. As our final post, we’re including a free digital downloadable edition of the full list. Click…

Mike Jenkins on how he writes a poem

Posted on August 6, 2019April 30, 2024

“All poems are journeys without a known destination, but none more so than those which derive from an inspirational moment.” There are no rules. No self-help guides and no course which can tell you definitively the way. Each poet must find their own method, or lack of one. For me, different kinds of poems generally…

10 Unmissable Poems from the last 5 years (Part 4 of 5)

Posted on August 2, 2019May 15, 2023

Read part four of our top ten unmissable poems published in Poetry Wales from the last 5 years. To celebrate 55 years of publishing poetry, every Friday we’ll be releasing two poems from the list, with our final post including a downloadable PDF edition of the poems. The ten poems in this short collection were selected…

Poetry Wales launches new international poetry competition: Wales Poetry Award

Posted on August 1, 2019September 12, 2023

A national competition to discover the very best international poetry. This competition is open to English-language submissions from poets aged 17 and above, from Wales and beyond.

Wales Poetry Award 2021 sponsored by Literature Wales. Judge: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

Posted on July 31, 2019September 12, 2023

“Wales Poetry Award, a national competition to discover the very best international contemporary poetry.” After 56 years of publishing contemporary poetry in 200 issues (and counting) of its magazine, Poetry Wales hosts its third year of Wales Poetry Award, a national competition to discover the very best international contemporary poetry.  Wales Poetry Award is open…

Poetry Wales 55.1 Cover

Editorial by Nia Davies: Summer 2019

Posted on July 31, 2019August 29, 2019

“Now we are at the fifty-fifth volume, summer 2019, and this is my last issue as editor.”

Rosemarie Corlett on how she writes a poem

Posted on July 30, 2019April 30, 2024

“I don’t follow a skeleton, or pad out a structure, rather the poem emerges like a road lit by headlights.” I never know what a poem will be about when I start writing it. And if it’s a successful poem, I won’t know what it’s about once it’s finished. I write line by line, and…

10 Unmissable Poems from the last 5 years (Part 3 of 5)

Posted on July 26, 2019May 15, 2023

See our third instalment of our top ten unmissable poems published in Poetry Wales from the last 5 years. To celebrate 55 years of publishing poetry, every Friday we’ll be releasing two poems from the list, with our final post including a downloadable PDF edition of the poems. The ten poems in this short collection were…

So Mayer on how they write a poem

Posted on July 23, 2019April 30, 2024

“[T]o write, for me, is to fill my mouth with worry. To worry at something: at tooth with tongue; seeking instabilities, gaps and that fleshy give. Feel it, and the anxiety floods in. But you keep fraying at it, a frayed knot: afraid not.” ‘we have filled our mouth with worry, beads.’ — Veronica Forrest-Thomson,…

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