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June 25, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Roadblock’ by Ilse Pedler
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Roadblock’ by Ilse Pelder from her newly published debut collection Auscultation. Ilse Pedler is a veterinary surgeon who works in Kendal. Her debut collection is Auscultation, which means listening and specifically, in me…
June 23, 2021
Karaoke King – A Playlist by Dai George
To celebrate publication of his new collection Karaoke King, Dai George has created a playlist of songs which tie in with the collection. Read on to find out what he chose and why. Listen on Spotify This confident second collection by Dai George…
June 18, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘September’s Child’ by Dai George
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘September’s Child’ by Dai George from his new collection Karaoke King which was published this week. Dai George’s confident second collection Karaoke King, addresses the contentious nature of the times. Always deeply thoug…
June 16, 2021
Ilse Pedler: Being a Poet and a Vet
This week we publish Ilse Pedler’s debut collection Auscultation. In this post she reflects on finding time to write around her career as a vet and how this inspires her poetry. Auscultation means listening and specifically, in medicine, listeni…
June 16, 2021
‘A City Burning’ longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize
Angela Graham’s debut ‘A City Burning’ on Edge Hill Prize longlist.
June 11, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Midnight, Dhaka, 25 March 1971’ by Mir Mafuz Ali
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Midnight, Dhaka, 25 March 1971’ by Mir Mafuz Ali from his collection Midnight, Dhaka. Midnight, Dhaka is the debut collection by Mir Mahfuz Ali. As a boy, Mahfuz witnessed atrocities and writes about them with a searing di…
June 4, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘The Guns’ by Katrina Naomi
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Guns’ by Katrina Naomi from her collection Wild Persistence which was published this time last year. Wild Persistence by Katrina Naomi is a confident and persuasive collection of poems. Written following her move…
June 1, 2021
Katrina Naomi – Wild Persistence, A Year On
A year on from publication of her collection Wild Persistence, poet Katrina Naomi reflects on her experience of publishing a book during the pandemic. A year ago, when I realised I couldn’t hold the launches for Wild Persistence that we’d planned in…
May 28, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Free, No Obligation Valuation’ by Rhian Edwards
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Free, No Obligation Valuation’ by Rhian Edwards from her second collection The Estate Agent’s Daughter, published this time last year. The Estate Agent’s Daughter is the eagerly awaited follow up to Rhian Edwards’s Wales B…
May 21, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘City’ by Peter Finch
This week our Friday Poem is ‘City’ by Peter Finch from his 2020 collection The Machineries of Joy. The Machineries of Joy is the vibrant, uproarious, pointed & wildly entertaining new collection from renowned Cardiff-based performance poet, Pete…
May 18, 2021
Extract from Fatal Solution by Leslie Scase
Fatal Solution by Leslie Scase once again sees Inspector Thomas Chard confronted with a murder in bustling Victorian Pontypridd. On the face of it the case appears unremarkable, even if it isn’t obviously solvable, but following new leads takes Chard…
May 14, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Instructions for the Coastal Walk from Clarach to Borth’ by Lynne Hjelmgaard
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Instructions for the Coastal Walk from Clarach to Borth’ by Lynne Hjelmgaard from her collection A Second Whisper. A Second Whisper is Lynne Hjelmgaard’s moving new collection in which she looks back upon her life in…
