Poetry Wales will be posting weekly/fortnightly prompts for its new competition Wales Poetry Award. Prompts are not mandatory nor required for submission, but intended as inspiration for new writing. Wales Poetry Award is open to international contemporary poetry and closes for submissions 28 November 2019. Click for more information. Writing prompt #6: Write about change Another decade…
Dai George on how he writes a poem
“[W}e’re long past the point where a straight white male poet can be swaggering or ‘unreliable’ with impunity”
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Submissions are Currently Closed
We are not accepting submissions of poetry to the magazine at this time On This Page Update on Submissions for Winter 2025: Thank you to everyone who submitted for Poetry Wales Winter 2025. We were blown away to receive over 4,000 submissions for this callout, which is 1,000 more than we usually receive. We therefore…
Poetry Wales welcomes new editor Jonathan Edwards
“It is a huge honour to be appointed as the new editor of Poetry Wales […] Let’s make something wonderful.”
Prue Chamberlayne on how she writes a poem
“Write freely and richly, notice the rhythm and the images that float around it, and walk with these first beginnings, since pace helps the poem to find itself and its own way.”
Writing prompt #5
Write about the in-between
Stephen Emmerson on how they write a poem
“There have been times when I’ve invested months of effort into a project only to realise that it doesn’t work. That’s just how it goes. If you take risks, you can’t expect things to work out all the time.”
Writing prompt #4
Poetry Wales will be posting weekly/fortnightly prompts for its new competition Wales Poetry Award. Prompts are not mandatory nor required for submission, but intended as inspiration for new writing. Wales Poetry Award is open to international contemporary poetry and closes for submissions 28 November 2019. Click for more information. Writing prompt #4: Respond to a…