“Perhaps the best one can hope to do when writing in the voice of an animal is urgently point to one’s own ignorance.”
Content warning: animal cruelty, war
VERVE Poetry Festival
At the Birmingham Hippodrome and online 13 – 16 February
Betty Doyle: How I Wrote ‘Announcements’
“It raced through my mind, unlocking all the bars, yelling ‘no compromise – you must and can and will write’”
Content warning: pregnancy loss, childlessness
Poetry Wales Pushcart Prize Nominations 2024
We are excited to announce our nominations for this year’s Pushcart Prize.
Mick Felton Obituary
In memoriam.
Peter E Murphy: How I Wrote ‘Bad History’
“I have a hiraeth for Wales which, cliché alert! nourishes my soul and gets my muse all excited.”
Content warning: mentions of suicide and addiction.
Forward Prize Commended Poems
Meet the Poetry Wales poets featured in the Forward Book of Poetry 202
B. Anne Adriaens: How I Wrote ‘The sea giveth and the sea taketh away’
“Writing long-hand in a notebook feels like a safe space, if only because I’m usually the only person who can read my messy handwriting!”
Content warning: mentions of drowning, death of a child
Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé: How I Wrote ‘The Dreams of Grandfather and Me’
“The answer I got was the dream. That dream, a cherished ambition, becomes a kind of symbiosis connection between my grandfather and me.”