We celebrate our 60th year of publication looking forwards and backwards with editors past and present.
Reflections at 60 | The Beginnings
Sam Adams, Editor from 1973-75, looks back on the beginnings of the magazine and our founder Meic Stephens.
Poetry Wales Award 2024-25 | The Winners
Announcing the three Award Winners of the Poetry Wales Award 2024-25
Jenny Danes: How I Wrote ‘In Emergency Break Egg’
“I think it took me many years of writing for humour to have earned its place, and for me to acknowledge it as part of my poetic voice.”
Reflections at 60 | Memories of the Eighties
Cary Archard, Editor of Poetry Wales 1980-86, reflects on a special issue featuring Lynette Roberts
Edward Heathman: How I Wrote ‘Night Watch’
“To me, place is about the relationship of distance-to-closeness. How connected someone feels to their national identity can be just as important as how direct or indirect a speaker is in a poem, or how straightforward or mysterious an image is.”
Poetry Wales Award 2025-26 | The Shortlist
Get to know the shortlisted poets and buy your ticket for our Awarding Ceremony
Katy Giebenhain: How I Wrote ‘Iowa River, October Wind’
“The Iowa River was right there before me. Like all rivers it has a history. It was no leap to think about the way we treat performers and natural resources.”
Julia Forster: How I Wrote ‘Drawing, 1988’
“Perhaps that’s what this poem is about: the many-dimensional reality in which we live as adults as opposed to the constraints of a childhood in which we are operating on different brain wave lengths.”