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March 11, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Interviewing’ by Ruth Bidgood
Following the sad passing of Ruth Bidgood, and in celebration of International Women’s Day, this week’s Friday Poem is ‘Interviewing’ from Ruth’s award-winning collection Time Being. Ruth Bidgood’s Time Being, winner of the Roland Mathias Prize, is e…
March 8, 2022
10 Books for International Women’s Day
To celebrate International Women’s Day we’ve put together a list of ten books by and about women which you should read. In Her Own Words – Alice Entwistle In Her Own Words: Women Talking Poetry and Wales is a collection of interviews with women poets…
March 8, 2022
Ruth Bidgood Obituary
We are sorry to hear of the passing of Ruth Bidgood, one of Wales’s finest poets.
March 4, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Portrait of the Artist Asleep’ by Ben Wilkinson
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Portrait of the Artist Asleep’ by Ben Wilkinson from his collection Same Difference which was published earlier this week. Same Difference is the formally acute second collection by Ben Wilkinson. Carefully crafted, a…
March 1, 2022
Reading for St David’s Day
Happy St David’s Day / Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus. 1st March not only marks the first day of Spring, but also St David’s Day here in Wales. To celebrate, we’ve rounded up a list of great books by some of our Welsh authors. How many of these have you read?…
February 25, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Steel’ by Paul Henry
To celebrate the Six Nations and St David’s Day on the 1st March, this week’s Friday Poem is ’Steel‘ by Paul Henry from The Brittle Sea: New and Selected Poems. With a musician’s ear and an artist’s eye, Paul Henry’s poems of love and fatherhood, inf…
February 22, 2022
Celebrating Welsh Dark Skies Week
The 19th to the 27th February 2022 is the inaugural Welsh Dark Skies Week, a week-long series of events designed to raise awareness of light pollution and how it impacts wildlife, our health and our view of the stars. Wales has one of the largest per…
February 18, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Fatherhood’ by Carrie Etter
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Fatherhood’ by Carrie Etter from her collection The Weather in Normal. Carrie Etter is known for beautifully expressive and formally inventive verse. The Weather in Normal, her fourth collection, explores the changes to he…
February 14, 2022
Poetry for Valentine’s Day
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with poetry collections that explore many different kinds of love. Don’t forget to sign up to our book club for 20% off all books you buy directly from us. The Brittle Sea: New and Selected Poems by Paul Henry With a musicia…
February 11, 2022
Friday Poem – From ‘You’ by John Haynes
With Valentine’s Day on the 14th February, this week’s Friday Poem is taken from the long-poem You by Costa-Award winning poet John Haynes. You is a book-length poem by the late poet John Haynes. The ‘You’ of the title is the narrator’s partner and w…
February 4, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Sailing by Silvership’ by Polly Atkin
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Sailing by Silvership’ by Polly Atkin from her most recent collection Much With Body. Much With Body is the startlingly original second collection by poet Polly Atkin. The beauty of the Lake District is both balm and mirro…
January 28, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Off the Hook’ by Carol Rumens
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Off the Hook’ by Carol Rumens from her collection De Chirico’s Threads, chosen by our new poetry editors Rhian Edwards and Zoë Brigley. De Chirico’s Threads by Carol Rumens features an unusual centre-piece, a verse-play, f…
