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…
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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…
Wales Poetry Award 2021: The Shortlist
We are delighted to announce the Wales Poetry Award 2021 shortlist. Wales Poetry Award 2021 was sponsored by Literature Wales and judged by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch. Download the shortlist PDF below. The Shortlist In alphabetical order of poet: Tess Biddington A Father Hanged for Poaching Robert Bodman Outsider Miles Bradley Single Man with Dog Faith MW…
Free Poetry for Schools
In 2020 we launched the first Wales Young Poets Award, created to support young writers during lockdown. Land of Poets is the result of this competition: an anthology collecting the shortlisted poems in both Welsh and English categories, written by entrants aged 10-17 and edited by Eurig Salisbury; Wales Young Poets Award judge, former Welsh Children’s…
Laura Chalar: “How I wrote ‘The infanta walks her poodle after a sandstorm'”
“When that moment arrives, a verse or a phrase will come into my head, and that will be the start of the process. Once I have those few words in my mind, I know that I have a poem, no matter how long it takes for it to take shape.”
Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition Winner and Shortlist Announced
We are delighted to announce the winning, highly commended and shortlisted poets in the new Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition 2021, judged by Taz Rahman, Matthew Haigh and Nia Morais. The winning pamphlet will be published by Seren Books in February 2022. Ten shortlisted poets will receive feedback from the judges, while 2 highly commended will…
Andrew Neilson: How I wrote ‘The Hustler’
“Perhaps unsurprisingly, this was a missing ingredient when I was trying and failing to write poetry as a young man.“ The Hustler We know we can’t finesse what’s been Michael Donaghy I met him twice. Once in my local, where suited he sat with a half of Guinness, his cue in its case like an…