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.
Category: Poems
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…


Inaugural Wales Poetry Award: The Shortlist
We are honoured to announce the shortlist for Wales Poetry Award 2019. Download and read the winning poems on our website.


How to publish your poem: 5 steps to becoming a published poet
Looking to get published? Here are five simple steps to becoming a published poet.


44 Poetry Books of 2019 as nominated by poets
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!


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.