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…
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Wales Poetry Award 2020: Winners Announced
Announcing the winners of Wales Poetry Award 2020, sponsored by Literature Wales, judged by Pascale Petit
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Wales Poetry Award 2020: The Shortlist
We are delighted to announce the 2020 shortlist for Wales Poetry Award. Our 2020 competition was sponsored by Literature Wales and judged by prize-winning poet Pascale Petit. Download the shortlist PDF below. The Shortlist (in alphabetical order of poet): Rowland Bagnall, ‘Feeling and Painting’ Rowland Bagnall, ‘The Hare’ Natalie Crick, ‘Sisters’ John Davies, ‘Caliban’ Dominic…
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Rosalind Hudis: How I write a poem
“Alchemy, metamorphosis, seems to be at the heart – a moment when the language of the poem leaps beyond all the mechanics of effort I put in.”
Kathy Miles: How I write a poem
“If you’re a poet, I don’t think there’s ever a time when you’re not writing.” In his poem ‘Night Fishing’, Glyn Edwards likens the writing process to wrestling with a pike thrashing in his throat in the middle of the night, which he’d haul ‘from my head in waking gloom / and wrap its snarl…
Susie Wild: How I write a poem
I RUN baths like I write poems.Draw the hot water first,soak the blank white. Leave it sit for a while often too long’til it soups cold. Or I’ll run it steaming full,let out the excess to avoid floods,that unwanted heat bit by bit, top up with the C tap. Submerge ’til skin turns pink, sweat forms on my brow,…