“I was attempting to write song lyrics before I realised it was poetry I was writing”
Wales Poetry Award 2023 – Shortlist & Winners
Read our thirteen shortlisted poems, selected by Denise Saul
Hilary Menos: How I Wrote ‘Lonely Hearts’
“Space is, of course, the “final frontier” but there are other areas for exploration, such as the deep ocean, and the human mind.”
Videographer Opportunity 2024
We’re looking for a Cymraeg Editor, Reviews Editor, and Proofreader for our Winter 2024 issue
Editorial Opportunities 2024
We’re looking for a Cymraeg Editor, Reviews Editor, and Proofreader for our Winter 2024 issue
Poetry Wales Summer 2024 Launch | Tuesday 6th August
Join us on 6th August at Tiger Bay Poetry to hear poems from 60.1
Euron Griffith: How I Wrote ‘History’
“For me, inspiration for poems tends to arrive when you least expect it and I find that my mind is particularly receptive to ideas when it’s in ‘neutral’ or ‘resting’ mode. Which is why this one came to me while I was queueing up to be served in Ashton’s Fish stall at Cardiff Market one Saturday afternoon”
John Freeman: How I Wrote ‘Staircase with Handbag’
“The very act of writing a poem implies that one hopes it will be found valuable, helpful even, by a reader or readers”
Caitlin Tina Jones: How I Wrote ‘In two hundred years we live in a cleft of Bannau Brycheiniog National Park’
“I think that titles are best used when they tell us something about the poem – specifically, something that you may be otherwise unable to say within the body”