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September 13, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Roads Across Europe’ by Martyn Crucefix
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Roads Across Europe’ by Martyn Crucefix, author of The Lovely Disciplines. Displaying his characteristic flair, craft and intelligence, Crucefix’s poems often begin with the visible, the tangible, the ordinary, yet through…
September 13, 2019
Jonathan Edwards in booksellers’ top 25 poetry books of the past 25 years
Jonathan Edwards’ Costa award-winning collection My Family and Other Superheroes amongst top 25 books of the last 25 years as chosen by booksellers.
September 13, 2019
‘Footnotes to Water’ is a PBS Winter Recommendation
Zoë Skoulding’s forthcoming collection Footnotes to Water is a PBS Winter Recommendation for 2019.
September 6, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Cell’ by Deryn Rees-Jones
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Cell’ by Deryn Rees-Jones which appears in her collection Erato. It was announced yesterday that Deryn’s poem ‘Firebird’, also from Erato, is amongst those highly commended by the Judges in the Forward Prizes for Poetry. O…
September 6, 2019
Deryn Rees-Jones is Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes
‘Firebird’ from Deryn Rees-Jones’ new collection Erato is amongst those highly commended by the judges in the Forward Prizes for Poetry.
September 4, 2019
Short Story of the Month – ‘Jumping Off’ by Sarah Evans
Our new short story of the month is ‘Jumping Off’ by Sarah Evans. Emma, a female wildlife photographer, is filming a family of barnacle geese. As the fluffy chicks take their first steps into the world, the cliff-edge of uncertainty lies before them….
August 30, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Gifts’ by Damian Walford Davies
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Gifts’ by Damian Walford Davies which appears in his collection Docklands: A Ghost Story. A disquieting fin-de-siècle ghost story in verse, Docklands explores grey worlds at the edges of the eye, conjuring late-Victorian C…
August 22, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Severn Bore’ by Catherine Fisher
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Severn Bore’ by Catherine Fisher which first appeared in her 1988 collection Immrama, and later in our regional pamphlet Poems from The Borders. Poems from The Borders is part of Seren’s pamphlet series celebrating the spi…
August 16, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Taken for Pearls’ by Tony Curtis
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Taken for Pearls’ by Tony Curtis which appears in our regional pamphlet Poems from Pembrokeshire. Last week Tony read poems from the pamphlet alongside Amy Wack at the Llangwm Literature Festival as part of the Poems from…
August 9, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Caldey Island’ by David Hodges
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Caldey Island’ by David Hodges which appears in our regional pamphlet Poems from Pembrokeshire. We hope everyone stays safe as we brace ourselves for stormy weather. This month, our poetry editor Amy Wack is taking Poems f…
August 2, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Care’ by Claire Williamson
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Care’ by Claire Williamson which recently received special mention in the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (May 2019), with the judges calling it ‘A beautiful image of fragility, of vulnerability.’ Claire’s…
July 29, 2019
More Good News for ‘A Simple Scale’
We are delighted to hear that A Simple Scale by David Llewelyn is amongst the six titles shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2019 after being longlisted for the award last month.
