The magazine presents outstanding new poetry from around the world and, of course, from Wales. Recent issues have featured poetry in translation from Poland, Slovakia, Argentina, Hungary, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Quebec, Galicia and Wales. Launches in the USA, Canada, and across Europe have strengthened links with a range of international poetry publications and communities of writers. At the same time, Poetry Wales remains committed to exploring the diverse perspectives of Welsh poetry in English from the past and present. Its interests in translation, and in exploring the meaning of local and national identities in a global context, are at the forefront of some of the most important developments in poetry today.
Poetry Wales emerges from a rich cultural background in which poetry in English exists alongside poetry in Welsh; it therefore welcomes a conversation that sees English-language poetry as part of wider relationships, both within Wales and beyond it. It is open to the possibilities offered by various forms of tradition and experiment, and publishes poetry from a broad range of approaches. Against this background of dynamic contrast, it offers a lively and informed critical context for the best new poetry.
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Poetry Wales - Winter 2009/2010 - Out Now!
In this issue we bring you the second part of Nerys Williams' investigations into the long poem, in which she looks at Robert Minhinnick, John James and Gwyneth Lewis. Carol Watts describes her poetic experiments with mathematics, harmonics and sheep farming, while Robert Minhinnick reports on poetry in the Middle East and the challenges of translation in a conflict zone.
Poems by Paul Henry, Sheenagh Pugh, John Powell Ward, Daljit Nagra, Simon Perril, Jim Goar, Mark Goodwin, David Kennedy, Steven Waling, Ioana Nicolaie, Kate Potts and many more.
And reviews of Wendy Mulford, Basil Bunting, Hywel Griffiths, Dannie Abse, Joseph Clancy, Will Stone, Paul Batchelor, Carrie Etter, Claire Crowther, Will Rowe, Gillian Clarke and Sheenagh Pugh.
In other news, our dedicated website will be live very soon, at www.poetrywales.co.uk. You'll be able to read about (and buy) the latest issue as well as back issues from our archive, subscribe online, and much more – including details of the returning Purple Moose Poetry Prize in 2010.
October 2009 Issue - Still Available
Poetry Wales issue 45.2 is still available. Features include Nerys Williams
on the horror of the Long Poem, Robert Minhinnick on the Llynfi Valley, Matthew Jarvis and John Kinsella in dialogue, and John Goodby on the Hay Poetry Jamboree.
Also, translations by John Barnie, Fflur Dafydd and Pascale Petit, and poems by Frances Presley, Peter Larkin, Mark Goodwin, Christopher Nield, Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein, Katherine Stansfield, Anna Lewis, Linda Black, Vuyelwa Carlin, Kevin Cantwell, John Kinsella, Peter Hughes and Carol Watts, Cliff Forshaw, Annemarie Austin, Margaret Kelly, and James Methven – Purple Moose Prize Winner 2009.
There's also a bumper reviews section this issue, with Tim Liardet weighing up collections by Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley, Alison Brackenbury on Ian Gregson, Fiona Owen reviewing Ruth Bidgood and John Powell Ward, Richard Marggraf Turley appraising four new poetry collections, Tony Frazer on translations of Victor Rodríguez Núñez and Petr Borkovec, Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese on European poetry, and Peter Hughes on the latest from Harry Guest and Sirol Troup!
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