Poetry
Category: Poetry, Poetry Wales
Number of pages: 80
ISBN: Single Issue
Publication date: July 1, 2025
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Poetry Wales 61.2 Winter 2025 | Home & Resilience
Exploring home and resilience, this issue features Ling Di Long / Mufambi, a Wales–Zimbabwe collaboration uniting poets across continents. Includes new work by Zoë Skoulding, Menna Elfyn and Carol Rumens, plus art, interviews and the winning poems from our competitions.
Editor Zoë Brigley
Reviews Editor Frances Cannon
Highlights include:
- Ling Di Long / Mufambi: A Year-Long Project – Bringing Together Zimbabwean and Welsh Poets | introduction by Zoë Brigley; featuring Peggie Shangwa, Taylor Edmonds, Mitchell Kudzai Duma, and more | Buy the accompanying collection here
- Clecs: Ten Questions with Sarah McCreadie, Poet Laureate for the Welsh Women’s Football Team 2025
- Poetry Wales Award 2025 Winners Natasha Gautier, Natasha Borton and Liam Bates
- Wales Young Poet Award Winners
- Poetry & Art: Ali Asadollahi
Reviews:
- Zoë Skoulding reviews Philip Terry’s Dante’s Purgatorio
- Cary Archard reviews Dai George’s How to Think Like a Poet
- CJ Wagstaff reviews Wendy Pratt’s Blackbird Singing at Dusk, Ness Owen’s Naming The Trees and Tamar Yoseloff’s Belief Systems
- Seanín Hughes reviews Bethany Handley’s Cling Film, Giles L. Turnbull’s Plastic Life and Jane Burn’s The Apothecary of Flight
To find out more about Poetry Wales, and browse the back catalogue of issues, go to poetrywales.co.uk
Zoë Brigley
Zoë Brigley has three PBS recommended poetry collections: The Secret (2007), Conquest (2012), and Hand & Skull (2019) (all from Bloodaxe); and recently a poetry chapbook, Aubade After A French Movie (Broken Sleep 2020). She has a collection of nonfiction essays Notes from a Swing State (Parthian 2019). She is Assistant Professor in English at the Ohio State University where she produces an anti-violence podcast: Sinister Myth. She won an Eric Gregory Award for the best British poets under 30, was Forward Prize commended, and listed in the Dylan Thomas Prize.
She is co-editor (with Kristian Evans) of the landmark poetry anthology 100 Poems to Save the Earth.
