We asked a collection of recent and future contributors to Poetry Wales to recommend their favourite poetry titles of 2019. Here are their top 44!
Category: Poems
Audio: Iris Colomb ‘After Amelia Barratt’ Poetry Wales 54.3 Spring 2019
Listen to Iris Colomb’s reading of her poem ‘After Amelia Barratt’, published in the Spring 2019 of Poetry Wales
‘Isn’t Forever’ and ‘Insistence’ reviewed by Jazmine Linklater (Poetry Wales 54.2)
Jazmine Linklater reviews books by Amy Key and Ailbhe Darcy.
‘Crying For No Reason’, ‘Against the Frame’ and ‘Along Mosaic Road’ reviewed by Jade Cuttle (Poetry Wales 54.3)
Jade Cuttle reviews books by Kim Kyung Ju, Azad Ashim Sharma and Calliope Michail.
‘What Are You After?’, ‘Stowaway’ and ‘Feral’ reviewed by Jonathan Edwards (Poetry Wales 55.1)
Jonathan Edwards reviews books by Josephine Corcoran, Richard Gwyn and Kate Potts.
‘Abolish the Police’ by Harry Josephine Giles (Poetry Wales 55.1)
Abolish the Police A chap at the door in the white dawn. ‘You’re late,’ says the police, who’s like me with testosterone poisoning, like eight trows in a yellow jacket, with eight telescopic batons. ‘I’m late,’ I nod, & whack the kettle on, making the steam a mask to slip…
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‘Hum’ by Tara Skurtu (Poetry Wales 55.1)
for Indré Are you aching? The poet held my handat the edge of the world’s smallest village.Think of pain as a plane. She wanted meto forgive what I couldn’t forgive.Only the side door to the Assumptionof Mary was unlocked—she kneltat the Virgin’s painted feet and prayed,and I took pictures of a crucified Jesusin a fishbowl…
10 Unmissable Poems Free Digital Download! (Part 5 of 5)
Read the final two of our top ten unmissable poems published in Poetry Wales from the last 5 years. To celebrate 55 years of publishing poetry, every Friday for the past four weeks we’ve released two poems from the list. As our final post, we’re including a free digital downloadable edition of the full list. Click…