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May 20, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Politics of Water’ by Peter Finch
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Politics of Water’ by Peter Finch. Originally published in his 1996 collection Math, it now features in Volume One of his newly published Collected Poems. Peter Finch’s remarkable career spans over fifty years. He has been…
May 13, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Rhys’ by Rhian Edwards
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Rhys’ by Rhian Edwards from her collection Clueless Dogs. Clueless Dogs is the multi-award-winning debut collection by Rhian Edwards. Full of verve and humour, Rhian Edwards’ language has a winning honesty and intensity. P…
May 11, 2022
Michael O’Brien featured in new TV documentary British Injustice with Raphael Rowe
Michael O’Brien was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Cardiff newsagent Philip Saunders in 1988. Episode 1 revisits his case.
May 6, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Samuel Taylor Colderidge Walking from the Queen’s Head…’ by Jonathan Edwards
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walking from The Queen’s Head…’ by Jonathan Edwards from his collection Gen. Gen is a book of lions and rock stars, street parties and servants, postmen and voices. In the opening sequence’s explo…
April 29, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Under One’s Hat’ by Hannah Hodgson
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Under One’s Hat’ by Hannah Hodgson from her debut collection 163 Days. Hannah Hodgon is an award-winning poet and a palliative care patient. In her compelling debut collection 163 Days, she uses a panoply of medical, legal…
April 22, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘The Creel’ by Kathleen Jamie
To celebrate Earth Day, this week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Creel’ by Kathleen Jamie from 100 Poems to Save the Earth. Our climate is on the brink of catastrophic change. 100 Poems to Save the Earth invites us to fine-tune our senses, to listen…
April 22, 2022
Books to celebrate Earth Day 2022
We’re celebrating Earth Day 2022 with a list of books that address the natural world, the climate emergency and nature in all its glory. 100 Poems to Save the Earth – Zoë Brigley and Kristian Evans 100 Poems to Save the Earth invites us to fine-tune…
April 22, 2022
Robert Minhinnick awarded Hay Festival Medal for Poetry
He is one of four people to receive a Hay Festival Medal in 2022.
April 15, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Somniloquy’ by Paul Henry
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Somniloquy’ by Paul Henry from his new collection As If To Sing. The power of song, to sustain the human spirit, resonates through As if to Sing. A trapped caver crawls back through songs to the sea; Welsh soldiers pa…
April 14, 2022
Robert Walton Highly Commended in the Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition
Robert’s poem ‘Den’ was highly commended by judge Adam Wyeth.
April 8, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘When it Rains, I Think of You’ by Eric Ngalle Charles
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘When it Rains, I Think of You’ by Eric Ngalle Charles from his new collection Homelands. In Homelands Eric Ngalle Charles draws on his early life raised by the matriarchs of Cameroon, being sent to Moscow by human traffick…
April 1, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Four Poets in a Bookshop’ by Abeer Ameer
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Four Poets in a Bookshop’ by Abeer Ameer from her debut collection Inhale/Exile. Cardiff-based poet Abeer Ameer writes of her forebears in her first collection, Inhale/Exile. Dedicated to the “holders of these stories”, th…
