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’…
Category: Poems
WBOTY 2020 Shortlist Poets: Interview with Deryn Rees-Jones
Editor Jonathan Edwards interviews former guest editor of Poetry Wales Deryn Rees-Jones whose collection Erato (Seren, 2019) is shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2020. JE: Huge congratulations on being shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year. How does it feel to be shortlisted? Is it especially important to you to be recognised…
WBOTY 2020 Shortlist Poets: Interview with Zoë Skoulding
Editor Jonathan Edwards interviews Zoë Skoulding, former Poetry Wales editor and shortlisted poet in Literature Wales’ Wales Book of the Year 2020.
WBOTY 2020 Shortlist Poets: Interview with Jeremy Over
Editor Jonathan Edwards interviews Jeremy Over, shortlisted poet for Wales Book of the Year 2020.
5 tips for new writers from underrepresented backgrounds
Are you a new writer looking to publish your poems? Here are 5 tips to become a published poet.
Poetry Wales launches Stay-at-Home Special Issue
“One thing Poetry Wales can give is poems, and what we can all, at the moment, let in safely – through this screen here and into our hearts – are words.”
Free Access to Poetry Wales Digital Archive until April 23rd
Free resource for individuals, schools and universities, in light of recent library closures.
Wales Poetry Award Finalists Announced & Poetry Wales Party at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival 2019
Katherine Stansfield announces the Wales Poetry Award finalists live at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival, followed by the Poetry Wales launch party celebrating Jonathan Edwards’s first issue as editor.
Audio: clare e. potter ‘Poams’ Poetry Wales 55.2 Winter 19/20
Listen to the clare e. potter’s reading of ‘Poams’, published in the new Poetry Wales Volume 55 Number 2. Subscribe today to receive your copy. clare e. potter’s spilling histories (Cinnamon Press, 2006) will be followed by A Certain Darkness. A bilingual poet and performer, clare has translated for the National Poet of Wales, was…