Wales Poetry Award, a national competition to discover the very best international contemporary poetry Update 15.05.2023: Winners Announced! Wales Poetry Award 2022 closed for entries in January 2023, and the shortlist and winners were announced in May 2023 Wales Poetry Award 2023 will be open for submissions in September 2023, exact dates TBC. Follow our…
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After Dickinson and Disability
Poetry Wales are delighted to announce an online panel at the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival To celebrate the launch of our disability-themed Summer 2022 issue, Poetry Wales Editor Zoë Brigley hosts a panel of poets from the issue alongside Dickinson critic Michael Davidson. While some readings of Dickinson’s poetics focus negatively on her potential…
Poetry Wales at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival
A hybrid poetry festival taking place from Friday 29th – Sunday 31st July Cardiff’s biggest poetry festival is back for 2022, and this time it’s hybrid! Our friends at Seren have been working hard to put together an amazing lineup of readings, launches, workshops and more this July, all centring around the theme of Wellness…
Spring 2022 Launches
To celebrate the publication of Spring 2022 Vol 57 No 3 (and after the success of our Earth Day launch), we are hosting two more launches featuring readings and conversations with poets featured in the issue. Both events will be held on Zoom and tickets are free and available below All of our Zoom events…
Introducing Our New Reviews Editor: George Sandifer-Smith, How I Wrote ‘Sandwich inspector’
Poetry Wales is delighted to announce the appointment of our new Reviews Editor, George Sandifer-Smith. By way of introduction, George explains the process behind writing his poem ‘Sandwich inspector’ as well as his hopes and plans for reviews… Sandwich inspector Lunchtime is vital. Waft of delivered bread slowing into crouton fodder two aisles away as…
Spring 2022 Earth Day Launch: Friday 22nd April
This Friday, Poetry Wales is holding a special Zoom event for Earth Day to launch issue 57.3. The front cover is by environmental artist Barry Underwood and the issue features new writing about nature, the more-than-human, and environmental crisis. Readers will include: John Barnie Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana Graham Hartil Lynne Hjelmgaard Jane Houston Mike Jenkins Joshua Jones Jennifer Militello…
Wales Poetry Award 2021 Prizegiving Ceremony, recorded March 2022
Sponsored by Literature Wales If you weren’t able to make the live Zoom of our Wales Poetry Award 2021 Prizegiving, you can now watch a subtitled recording via our YouTube channel to hear all thirteen shortlisted poems read by their writers (and one by our editor Zoë Brigley, who stepped in for a poet on…
EXTRACT FROM: ‘How Being a Girl Poet Saved My Life’ by Jenny Mitchell
Update May 2022: You can now read this article in its entirety via our digital partner Exact Editions’ Feminism and Gender Equality resource here In honour of International Women’s Day on 8th March 2022, we are releasing an extract from Jenny Mitchell’s article ‘How Being a Girl Poet Saved My Life’, the full version of…
Wales Poetry Award 2021: Winners Announced
We are delighted to announce the final placements of the Wales Poetry Award 2021, judged by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and sponsored by Literature Wales. The first, second and third award winners will all be published in a future issue of Poetry Wales, as well as receiving cash prizes and Seren book bundles. You can read all…