Editor Jonathan Edwards interviews Jeremy Over, shortlisted poet for Wales Book of the Year 2020.
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Natalie Ann Holborow: How I write a poem
When I take my place in front of my laptop at four in the morning (disgusting hour of the day if it’s for work, yet a sublime hour for languishing in that haze of soporific half-dreaming), I rarely arrive with a solid plan.
Gwobr Beirdd Ifanc Cymru yn lansio heddiw! Wales Young Poets Award launches today!
Bilingual competition for 10-17 year olds across the the UK. Cystadleuaeth farddoniaeth ddwyieithog (Gymraeg a Saesneg) ledled y DU i blant 10-17 oed, dan ofal Poetry Wales.
Poetry Wales’ international poetry competition Wales Poetry Award returns for 2nd year
Poetry Wales relaunches Wales Poetry Award for its second year, a national competition to discover the very best international poetry.
Briony Collins and the poems that inspire her
I was very lucky growing up, but not in the way you might imagine. My mother died when I was five and the precise circumstances of her death are still a mystery. When my father wasn’t drowning his grief, he was masking it in anger. My brother and I were emotionally stunted for a long…
Peter Knaggs on the poems that inspire him
Vasko I’ve got it in my hand now, the hefty slab of it, Vasko Popa Complete Poems and I thought I’d have a go at saying summat about it. Now, I love Popa and over the last year he has been the biggest influence over my work. At a fundamental level Popa has altered my…
Elizabeth Porter on the poems that inspire her
When I was a child there was something called ‘Chip Club’ – a leaflet given out at school once or twice a year, from which we could order books. I was lucky, my mum always bought me a book, and in 1974 I chose 100+ American Poems, edited by Paul Molloy. Why? Maybe for the…
A Poetry Library for Wales, Adam Sillman & Rhys Owain Williams (Poetry Wales 55.3)
Why didn’t Wales have one? Where should one be established? Who should be involved? Typically the conversation would conclude in one of two ways: enthusiastically agreeing to boozy plans to open a poetry library ourselves, or reasoning that someone, somewhere, must already be doing something.
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…