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Wales Poetry Award 2021: The Shortlist

Posted on February 23, 2022September 12, 2023

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

Posted on February 8, 2022March 8, 2022

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…

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Laura Chalar: “How I wrote ‘The infanta walks her poodle after a sandstorm'”

Posted on February 1, 2022April 30, 2024

“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

Posted on October 8, 2021July 11, 2023

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 on how he writes a poem. Poetry Wales: National Poetry Magazine of Wales

Andrew Neilson: How I wrote ‘The Hustler’

Posted on September 16, 2021April 30, 2024

“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…

Jack Solloway: How I wrote ‘Dating’ and ‘Shave and Haircut’

Posted on September 14, 2021April 30, 2024

“[T]he poems, while ostensibly about other things, are just one-sided conversations in search of someone else. Most poems are, at least to begin with […]” I. Dating  There are severed heads in the British MuseumThe human kind if you’d like to see themI can book a ticketIf you fancy it O, it says hereThey’re not…

Jessica Mookherjee how she writes a poem. Poetry Wales: National poetry magazine of Wales

Jessica Mookherjee: How I wrote ‘Jail Birds’

Posted on September 8, 2021April 30, 2024

“I started to think of all the ways we are locked in our own selves and how much we can ever really be understood by others.“ Jail Birds The crow keeps records of my movements,no need for locks, his beak is keen and fast. Everywhere the starlings gather, they chitchateverything, quick quick, I go back…

Poetry Wales welcomes Marvin Thompson and Zoë Brigley as the magazine’s first joint editors!

Posted on August 2, 2021April 30, 2024

“I am overjoyed to be appointed as the new editor of Poetry Wales with Zoë Brigley.”

Text: Paul Stephenson ‘Your Name’ Poetry Wales 56.2 Winter 2020

Posted on July 8, 2021

Tod – noun (1): a male fox, a dog, a reynard; a fox, chiefly in Scotland;example, ‘the tod, or fox, is their totem, and him they diligentlypursue’; tod, someone like a fox, a crafty person; noun (2) archaic, anEnglish unit of weight for wool, one equal to 28 pounds or 12.7kilograms but varying locally; noun…

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