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Poetry Wales Presents Translation Challenge 2020’s Winning Translation

Posted on September 16, 2020September 16, 2020

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,…

Poetry Wales Summer 2020 Launch Event! Register for free now

Posted on August 20, 2020October 9, 2020

Register to attend the virtual launch of Poetry Wales‘ summer 2020 edition on 7 September 2020 at 7pm. Spend the evening with (TBC) poets Carrie Etter, Jeni Williams, Philip Gross, Rob Miles, Mari Ellis Dunning, Helen Tookey, Sampurna Chattarji, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Luke Samuel Yates, Jon Stone, Moniza Alvi, David Clarke, Ifor Thomas, Benjamin Palmer, Nicholas McGaughey,…

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

Posted on August 20, 2020October 9, 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’…

Gareth Writer-Davies: How I write a poem

Posted on August 17, 2020August 12, 2020

“I wasn’t prepared for all the time that writing involves […] and the obsession that has risen within me. But I think it was what I was made to do.” I’m often identified as a Welsh poet (something which I’m always slow to contradict) but as usual, the truth is more complicated than that. With…

Summer 2020 Edition Out Now

Posted on August 14, 2020September 7, 2020

Our Summer Edition is here! Order your copy now.

Rob Miles: How I write a poem

Posted on August 12, 2020

There is no muse, but there is fertile mush. Everyone bar no one is at least a first stage poet, that is, someone who ‘hears’ things: other’s words; or their own, internally;

Matthew Haigh: How I write a poem

Posted on August 5, 2020

I would say that humour and gorgeousness are key ingredients to many of my poems – there’s a kind of paradise in daydreaming

Wales Book of the Year 2020 WBOTY Deryn Rees-Jones Erato Literature Wales

WBOTY 2020 Shortlist Poets: Interview with Deryn Rees-Jones

Posted on July 29, 2020August 5, 2020

Editor Jonathan Edwards interviews former guest editor of Poetry Wales Deryn Rees-Jones whose collection Erato (Seren, 2019) is shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2020. JE: Huge congratulations on being shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year. How does it feel to be shortlisted? Is it especially important to you to be recognised…

Wales Book of the Year 2020 WBOTY Zoe Skoulding Footnotes to Water Literature Wales

WBOTY 2020 Shortlist Poets: Interview with Zoë Skoulding

Posted on July 28, 2020August 5, 2020

Editor Jonathan Edwards interviews Zoë Skoulding, former Poetry Wales editor and shortlisted poet in Literature Wales’ Wales Book of the Year 2020.

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