“If you’re a poet, I don’t think there’s ever a time when you’re not writing.” In his poem ‘Night Fishing’,  Glyn Edwards likens the writing process to wrestling with a pike thrashing in his throat in the middle of the night, which he’d haul ‘from my head in waking gloom / and wrap its snarl…
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Susie Wild: How I write a poem
I RUN baths like I write poems.Draw the hot water first,soak the blank white. Leave it sit for a while often too long’til it soups cold. Or I’ll run it steaming full,let out the excess to avoid floods,that unwanted heat bit by bit, top up with the C tap. Submerge ’til skin turns pink, sweat forms on my brow,…
Introducing Poetry Wales’ new Contributing Editors
Announcing the appointment of three new contributing editors.
30% off Annual and Biennial Print Subscriptions TODAY ONLY
Friday BuyDay has returned! Today only, purchase your annual or biennial standard recurring print subscription with 30% off your first year. Offer ends midnight tonight. Add code INDIE10 to your basket before checkout. Introductory Offer: 20% off new Welsh Gold Poetry Subscription A Poetry Wales exclusive: our new Welsh Gold Poetry subscription is now available…
Introducing the newly upgraded Welsh Gold Subscription, exclusive to Poetry Wales
To mark National Poetry Day in its celebration of all things poetry, we’re excited to share our newly upgraded Welsh Gold subscription, now available to purchase for £150 (worth £190*). The updated subscription includes every Seren poetry title published in 2021, supporting even more fantastic poets from Wales and beyond. This offer is available until…
New Professional Development Opportunity | Poetry Wales Contributing Editors
First of three Professional Development Opportunities at Poetry Wales is open for applications until 11 October 2020
Poetry Wales Presents Translation Challenge 2020’s Winning Translation
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
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
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’…