Those who do the most wrong and are the most worth saying No to tend to be part of enormous systems and crushing, smug hierarchies aimed at their own preservation. But sometimes you have to say it, whatever the cost.
Michael Arnold Williams, extract from ‘Hands, Wonderful Hands’ Poetry Wales 56.1 Summer 2020
Dear Miss Bane, I’m not yet quite four years old, and I’m standing in the yard of your school. I’m saying your school, but of course I know it isn’t really yours, but I’m sure you’ll know what I’m meaning. Anyway, the yard of somebody’s school, anybody’s school, everybody’s school or nobody’s school maybe, nobody’s…
Rob Miles: How I write a poem
There is no muse, but there is fertile mush. Everyone bar no one is at least a first stage poet, that is, someone who ‘hears’ things: other’s words; or their own, internally;
Matthew Haigh: How I write a poem
I would say that humour and gorgeousness are key ingredients to many of my poems – there’s a kind of paradise in daydreaming
WBOTY 2020 Shortlist Poets: Interview with Deryn Rees-Jones
Editor Jonathan Edwards interviews former guest editor of Poetry Wales Deryn Rees-Jones whose collection Erato (Seren, 2019) is shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2020. JE: Huge congratulations on being shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year. How does it feel to be shortlisted? Is it especially important to you to be recognised…
WBOTY 2020 Shortlist Poets: Interview with Zoë Skoulding
Editor Jonathan Edwards interviews Zoë Skoulding, former Poetry Wales editor and shortlisted poet in Literature Wales’ Wales Book of the Year 2020.
WBOTY 2020 Shortlist Poets: Interview with Jeremy Over
Editor Jonathan Edwards interviews Jeremy Over, shortlisted poet for Wales Book of the Year 2020.
Natalie Ann Holborow: How I write a poem
When I take my place in front of my laptop at four in the morning (disgusting hour of the day if it’s for work, yet a sublime hour for languishing in that haze of soporific half-dreaming), I rarely arrive with a solid plan.
Gwobr Beirdd Ifanc Cymru yn lansio heddiw! Wales Young Poets Award launches today!
Bilingual competition for 10-17 year olds across the the UK. Cystadleuaeth farddoniaeth ddwyieithog (Gymraeg a Saesneg) ledled y DU i blant 10-17 oed, dan ofal Poetry Wales.