Poetry Wales

Poetry Wales is a triannual poetry magazine published in Bridgend, Wales. Founded by Meic Stephens and now published by Seren, it is edited by Zoë Brigley. Since its first publication in 1965, the magazine has built an international reputation for excellent poems, features and reviews from Wales and beyond.[1] The magazine is published in print and online.

Poetry Wales
Winter 2014 cover
EditorZoë Brigley
Former editors
CategoriesPoetry
FrequencyTriannually
PublisherSeren
FounderMeic Stephens
First issueSpring 1965
CountryWales
Based inBridgend
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.poetrywales.co.uk

History

Poetry Wales was founded by Meic Stephens in 1965,[2] and has since been edited by Sam Adams, John Powell Ward,[3] Cary Archard,[4] Mike Jenkins, Richard Poole,[5] Robert Minhinnick, Zoë Skoulding,[6][7][8] Nia Davies and Jonathan Edwards. In August 2021, the magazine appointed its first ever joint editors in Zoë Brigley and Marvin Thompson.[9] However, Thompson stepped down from the role three weeks later.[10] Since then, Brigley has introduced a scheme where a series of contributing editors join the magazine for a couple of issues, including Vicky Morris, Isabelle Baafi, Hannah Hodgson, Taylor Edmonds, Tangie Mitchell, and Grug Muse.

Former guest editors of individual issues include Deryn Rees-Jones, Stephen Knight, Gwyneth Lewis, Paul Henry and Duncan Bush.

Former editor Cary Archard also founded Poetry Wales Press, which now trades under the name Seren Books.

Poetry Wales is supported by Swansea University and has a Creative Partnership with Aberystwyth University's Institute of Literature, Languages and Creative Arts.[11] Along with two other literary magazines in Wales, New Welsh Review and Planet, Poetry Wales receives funding from the Welsh Books Council.

Recent Issues

Poetry Wales has published 212 issues and counting of its magazine. The magazine is published in yearly volumes, previously over 4 seasonal issues, and now over 3 issues published in Winter, Spring and Summer.

Issue Publication Date Editor Contributors
56.3 Spring 2021 Jonathan Edwards Features: Zoë Brigley, Kristian Evans, Robert Minhinnick, Philip Gross, Cyril Jones, Valerie Coffin Price, Carl Griffin, Hilary Watson, Seàn Hewitt, Phil Jones

Reviews: April Yee, Stephen Payne, Rhys Owain Williams, Zoë Wells

Poems: Sheenagh Pugh, Hilary Watson, April Yee, Stephen Payne, Philip Gross, Graham Mort, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Nicholas McGaughey, Matthew Haigh, Shauna Robertson, Harriet Truscott, Tracey Rhys, Zoe Wells, Katherine Stockton, Zoe Brigley, Seán Hewitt, Estelle Price, Fiona Benson, Edward Lee, Daisy Henwood, Kath Osgerby, Archie Capon, Rhys Owain Williams, Phil Jones, Jeanette Burton, Taz Rahman, Sarah Salway, Laura Seymour, Rae Howells, Kristian Evans, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Joanna Ingham, Rebecca Farmer, Alycia Pirmohamed, Robert Walton, Jeremy Hooker, Amelia Eilersten, Jane Draycott, Judy Brown, Christopher Horton, Juliet Antill, Jennie Farley, Peter Carpenter, Robert Minhinnick, Carl Griffin, Valerie Coffin Price, Cyril Jones

56.2 Winter 2020 Jonathan Edwards Features: Andrew McMillan, Tiffany Atkinson

Poems: Seán Hewitt, Tiffany Atkinson, Hannah Lowe, Alice Miller, Khairani Barokka, Carole Bromley, John McCullough, Penelope Shuttle, Jo Morris Dixon, Sarah Barnsley, Rae Howells, Josephine Corcoran, Merrie Joy Williams, Rishi Dastidar, Caleb Parkin, Damian Walford Davies, Abeer Ameer, John Freeman, James Giddings, Richie McCaffery, Amy Acre, Matt Nunn, David Hughes, Alan Gillis, Tamar Yoseloff, Amanda Rackstraw, Ranjit Hoskote, David Hawkins, Philip Williams, Paul Stephenson, Jeremy Page, Jane Bonnyman, Andrew McMillan, Jessica Mookherjee, Ailbhe Darcy, Cris Paul, Dai George, Katrina Naomi, Ben Ray, Ross Cogan, Peter Carpenter

56.1 Summer 2020 Jonathan Edwards Features: Moniza Alvi, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch Gareth Prior, Jeni Williams, John Gower, Cris Paul

Reviews: Dai George, John Greening, Kirsten Irving, P.C. Evans

Poems: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Gareth Prior, Jeni Williams, Jon Gower, Moniza Alvi, Cris Paul, Nerys Williams, David Clarke, David Morley, Anna Woodford, Huw Jones, Llŷr Lewis, Joanna Ingham, Michael McKimm, Helen Tookey, Jannat Ahmed, Mari Ellis Dunning, Michael Arnold Williams, Tishani Doshi, Philip Gross, David Briggs, Carrie Etter, Nicholas McGaughey, Gareth Writer-Davies, Bryony Littlefair, Sampurna Chattarji, Luke Samuel Yates, Jon Stone, Kathy Miles, Benjamin Palmer, Ifor Thomas, Rob Miles, Paul Henry

55.3 Spring 2020 Jonathan Edwards Features: Marvin Thompson, Di Slaney, Adam Sillman and Rhys Owain Williams

Poems: John Freeman, Di Slaney, Joe Dunthorne, Annie Brechin, Ben Bransfield, Ben Rogers, Nerys Williams, Dai George, Abeer Ameer, Kerry Hardie, Alan Perry, Leo Temple, Elizabeth Porter, Jan Harris, Rhian Edwards, Susie Wild, Daniel Sluman, Rhiannon Hooson, Jill Munro, Stephen Payne, Taylor Edmonds, Richard Georges, Lauren Pope, Bethany Pope, Michael Loveday, Katrina Naomi, Peter Knaggs, Zillah Bowes, Jodie Hollander, Paul Stephenson, Kathy Miles, Tony Curtis, Zoë Wells

55.2 January 2020 Jonathan Edwards Features: Gillian Clarke, Paul Henry, Arjunan Manuelpillai, David Greenslade, Wendy Pratt

Reviews: Kate Noakes, David Clarke, Anna Lewis, Steve Whitaker

Poems: Gillian Clarke, Osi Rhys Osmond, Stephen Knight, Vicky Morris, Jessica Mookherjee, Marvin Thompson, Liz Lefroy, Emily Blewitt, clare e. potter, Patrick Jones, Phil Jones, Arjunan Manuelpillai, Di Slaney, Matthew Jarvis, Rhea Seren Phillips, David Rees Davies, Joe Dunthorne, Matthew Caley, David Clarke, Emily Cotterill, Shauna Robertson, Christopher Meredith, Emma Simon, Wendy Pratt, Neetha Kunaratnam, Rhian Edwards, Linda Saunders, John Freeman

55.1 Summer 2019 Nia Davies Features: James Goodwin; Catrin Menai and Rhys Trimble; Rhea Seren Phillips, Alonso Quesda translated and introduced by Daniel Eltringham; Paul Kaye, Wioletta Greg and Antonia Lloyd-Jones; From the Archive: Meirion Pennar

Reviews: Siofra McSherry, Jonathan Edwards, Jazmine Linklater, Gareth Prior, Ellen Bell, Rhys Trimble

Poems: Gloria Dawson, Verity Spott, Lucy Mercer, Harry Josephine Giles, Stephen Emmerson, Virna Teixeira trans. Shelley Bhoil, David Asherford, Paul Stephenson, Catrin Menai, Charles Wilkinson, Tara Skurtu, Efe Duyan trans. Neil Doherty & Tara Skurtu, Wioletta Greg trans. Paul Kaye, Ghazal Mosadeq, Meirion Pennar trans. Rhys Trimble

54.3 Spring 2019 Nia Davies Features: Sarah Hudis, So Mayer, Dai George, Gareth Leaman

Reviews: Gareth Leaman, Maryam Hessavi, Rhys Trimble, Rhian Barfoot, Maggie Harries, Jade Cuttle

Poems: Azad Ashim Sharma, Maria Jastrzębska, Hanan Issa, Lee Duggan, Iris Colomb, Alison Gibb, Sarah Kelly, James Byrne, Huw Lawrence, Prue Chamberlayne, Rhian Elizabeth, John McCullough, Andrew Wells, Jonathan Edwards, Peter Hughes, Michael Farrell

54.2 Autumn 2018 Nia Davies Features: Nerys Williams, Anna Reckin, Richard Gwyn, Marianna Burton, Robert Minhinnick

Reviews: Gareth Farmer, Daryl Leeworthy, Ellen Bell, Maryam Hessavi, Jazmine Linklater, Elz’bieta Wójcik-Leese.

Poems: Sascha Aurora Ahktar, Jazmine Linklater, Stewart Sanderson, Ifor Ap Glyn, Chloe Garner, Sian Melangell Dafydd, Simon Mundy, Sarah Marina, Andrew Spragg, Joe Dunthorne, Rose Knapp, Mike Jenkins, John White, Rosemary Corlett, David O’Hanlon, Eleanor Rees, Maitreyabandhu, Dan O’Brien, Fiona Cameron, Owen Lewis, Nerys Williams, James Stradner, Robert Sheppard.

Wales Poetry Award

In August 2019, Poetry Wales launched its annual international poetry competition Wales Poetry Award, sponsored by Aberystwyth University. The competition is open to all poets aged 17+ and accepts English language poetry up to 70 lines.[12] Its inaugural award winners were announced at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival in February 2020, with Leo Temple taking first prize for 'Towards a Bucolics of Contactless: a particular poem'.[13]

YearWinnerTitle of PoemJudge
2019Leo TempleTowards a Bucolics of Contactless: a particular poemKatherine Stansfield
2020Maggie Harrisand the thing isPascale Petit

See also

References
  1. "About Poetry Wales". Poetry Wales. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  2. WalesOnline tribute to Meic Stephens
  3. Swansea University
  4. Seren Books authors
  5. Richard Poole official website
  6. "Zoe Skoulding editor of Poetry Wales". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  7. Bangor University
  8. Bangor University
  9. "Poetry Wales welcomes Marvin Thompson and Zoë Brigley as the magazine's first joint editors!". Poetry Wales. 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  10. "Marvin Thompson Stepping Down as Poetry Wales Co-Editor". Wales Arts Review. 24 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  11. "Poetry Wales >> About". Poetry Wales. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  12. "Wales Poetry Award sponsored by Aberystwyth University". Poetry Wales. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  13. Src='date=2020-02-26 (26 February 2020). "Wales Poetry Award Finalists Announced & Poetry Wales Party at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival 2019". Poetry Wales. Retrieved 24 June 2021.


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