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!
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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.
Writing prompt #12
Culture, dirt, trees, seas, people, legends, folklore, walking, beaches, trains, valleys, smoke, glass, bread, cawl, half-and-half, music, dance, anthems, art, words, language, croeso, home, ysgol, work, homeless, pride, poetry, land. For our last writing prompt, write about Wales.
‘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.
Owen Lewis on how he writes a poem
“I see and hear things at this hour that might be lost later in the day when texts and emails and schedules and all the to-do’s crowd in.”