“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…
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Jack Solloway: How I wrote ‘Dating’ and ‘Shave and Haircut’
“[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 I wrote ‘Jail Birds’
“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!
“I am overjoyed to be appointed as the new editor of Poetry Wales with Zoë Brigley.”
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Vacancy: Editor at Poetry Wales, applications open until 30th June 2021
Make your mark on the leading English-language poetry magazine of Wales. Poetry Wales is looking to appoint its new editor to be in post for the next 3 years in the first instance, starting Autumn 2021 for the March 2022 issue. Individual and two-person joint applications are welcome. Fee £3000 per issue, with potential to…
‘Only Blood’ and ‘Sliced Tongue and Pearl Cufflinks’ reviewed by Zoë Wells (Poetry Wales 56.3)
Zoë Wells reviews collections by Pat Edwards and Kittie Belltree.
Announcing Wales Young Poets Award 2020 Winners and Shortlist
We are delighted to share the winners and shortlist for the first Wales Young Poets Award / Gwobr Beirdd Ifanc Cymru. WYPA / GBIC is a Poetry Wales UK-wide bilingual (Welsh and English) poetry competition for young poets aged 10-17, judged by Eurig Salisbury, former Bardd Plant Cymru (Welsh Children’s Laureate). The winning and shortlisted…
Wales Poetry Award 2020: Winners Announced
Announcing the winners of Wales Poetry Award 2020, sponsored by Literature Wales, judged by Pascale Petit