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Nurture Young Talent: Support our Crowdfunder and help create a new anthology and competition for young writers

Posted on June 8, 2020July 22, 2020

We need your help to raise £3000 for Wales Young Poets Award, a new bilingual competition and anthology for young people aged 10-17 across Wales and the UK. The competition will be free to enter and its theme will be empathy. We will produce an anthology that will find a home in every school in Wales….

Ben Bransfield on the poems that inspire him

Posted on June 3, 2020May 27, 2020

Another guardian of the soul for me is Mary Oliver, who I always turn to when I need a quiet jolt back into my ‘one wild and precious life’

Katrina Naomi on the poems that inspire her

Posted on June 1, 2020May 27, 2020

Whenever I read a new collection, I always copy out poems that I love – I suppose it’s a way of keeping those poems close to me but also, in a more nerdy way, seeing how they’ve worked line breaks for example, and finding out how the poems feel as I type them out. I love learning like this.

Lauren Pope on the poems that inspire her

Posted on May 28, 2020May 27, 2020

For me, the persona poem was the gateway drug into writing a more mature form of poetry. It offered a distancing mechanism – the ability to project the personal onto the classical. Poets like Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath were hugely influential. And then there’s Louise Glück. Her sequence-length lyric, Meadowlands, which depicts her failed…

Jan Harris on the poems that inspire her

Posted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020

Growing up in the countryside, I suppose it was natural for me to be drawn to nature poetry.  The first poetry book I owned was Ted Hughes’ Selected Poems. I still have most of it; the back cover is missing and many of the pages have been punctured or torn by canine teeth – of the…

Mari Ellis Dunning on the poems that inspire her

Posted on May 27, 2020

“There is a real magic(k) in finding a beautiful line or unique turn of phrase that jolts you as a reader, and sits in your gut far beyond that initial reading”

Leo Temple on the poems that inspire him

Posted on May 19, 2020April 29, 2020

“‘A Lot of People Bathing in a Stream,’ by Wallace Stevens, has, for some time, been the poem I return to when I have truly lost my way.”

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‘Vertebrae’, ‘On Watching a Lemon Sail the Sea’ and ‘My Body Can House Two Hearts’ reviewed by Kathy Miles (Poetry Wales 55.3)

Posted on May 11, 2020April 22, 2020

Kathy Miles reviews collections from Glyn Edwards, Maggie Harris and Hanan Issa.

5 tips for new writers from underrepresented backgrounds

Posted on May 6, 2020July 24, 2020

Are you a new writer looking to publish your poems? Here are 5 tips to become a published poet.

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