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Tracey Rhys: How I Wrote ‘He tells me how trees communicate…’
“I think that when we have children, many of us tend to turn the natural world into fairyland for a while, and share their entrancement with it.”
Sarah Wimbush ‘STRIKE’
Sarah Wimbush’s new collection ‘STRIKE’ features two poems from Poetry Wales 59.1 and launches at the National Coal Mining Museum on Sunday 28th January
Steve Logan: How I Became a Poet
“I began to write poems and music in earnest to save my life”
Wales Young Poets Award – Deadline Extended | Gwobr Beirdd Ifanc Cymru – Dyddiad Cau Wedi’i Ymestyn
The deadline for the Wales Young Poets Award has been extended until 29th February 2024
Mae dyddiad cau Gwobr Beirdd Ifanc Cymru wedi’i ymestyn tan 29 Chwefror
Astra Papachristodoulou: How I Wrote ‘Unbodied’
“Given [the constraint of short form], I like to utilise materials that, in conjunction with the short text, offer additional meaning to ultimately make the poems multi-layered, esoteric and more nuanced”
Daljit Nagra: How I Wrote ‘We’re Lighting Up The Nation’
“I didn’t want to be a poet who knocks out book after book of ‘auto-pilot’ poems, so I stopped writing the thirty-line poem and sought something that would challenge me. I waited to be astonished by something different.”
How I Write a Poem: Best Writing Tips of 2023
A look back at some of the best writing tips from our How I Write a Poem interviews in 2023. Share your favourites with us!
Anna Blasiak: How I Wrote ‘EMBROIDERY. HAFT’
“[I]nstead of having two separate language versions of the poem, I ended up with one, which brings the languages together… This, I think, reflects how the brain of a bilingual/multilingual person works”