“[No] matter how many words I put down, it didn’t touch on what I was trying to get to. Instead, what I have tried to do is not say it, but use the space in-between, the felt space, and use that as a vehicle to get me, and hopefully the reader, closer to something.”
Maggie Harris: How I Wrote ‘Legacy’
“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”