A hybrid poetry festival taking place from Friday 29th – Sunday 31st July Cardiff’s biggest poetry festival is back for 2022, and this time it’s hybrid! Our friends at Seren have been working hard to put together an amazing lineup of readings, launches, workshops and more this July, all centring around the theme of Wellness…
Sponsored by Literature Wales If you weren’t able to make the live Zoom of our Wales Poetry Award 2021 Prizegiving, you can now watch a subtitled recording via our YouTube channel to hear all thirteen shortlisted poems read by their writers (and one by our editor Zoë Brigley, who stepped in for a poet on…
We are delighted to announce the final placements of the Wales Poetry Award 2021, judged by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and sponsored by Literature Wales. The first, second and third award winners will all be published in a future issue of Poetry Wales, as well as receiving cash prizes and Seren book bundles. You can read all…
We are delighted to announce the Wales Poetry Award 2021 shortlist. Wales Poetry Award 2021 was sponsored by Literature Wales and judged by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch. Download the shortlist PDF below. The Shortlist In alphabetical order of poet: Tess Biddington A Father Hanged for Poaching Robert Bodman Outsider Miles Bradley Single Man with Dog Faith MW…
“Wales Poetry Award, a national competition to discover the very best international contemporary poetry.” After 56 years of publishing contemporary poetry in 200 issues (and counting) of its magazine, Poetry Wales hosts its third year of Wales Poetry Award, a national competition to discover the very best international contemporary poetry. Wales Poetry Award is open…
