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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Dr Zoë Skoulding
Editor, Poetry Wales
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Bangor University
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Poetry Wales/Purple Moose Poetry Prize
The winner of the Poetry Wales/Purple Moose Poetry Prize will be announced soon. We had a huge number of entries, and the judges have been delighted by the high quality of the poems, though this will make the final decision all the more challenging. Entrants will be informed personally, and an announcement will be made on the website.
Spring 2009 Issue - Out Now!
The Spring issue of Poetry Wales is out now. It features Matthew Jarvis' latest retrospective (on the 1980s and the return of political energy), John Kinsella contributes an article on geography and activist poetics, John Hartley Williams shares his thoughts on nakedness, and Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese shares different perspectives on Zbigniew Herbert.
As usual there's fantastic and diverse poetry from Wales and the rest of the world, with work from Matthew Sweeney, Carrie Etter, Newport psychogeography from Chris Paul, Phil Maillard, Emily Hinshelwood, Richard Poole, and translations of Emmanuel Moses by Marilyn Hacker. And of course in-depth reviews of some of the best poetry around.
There are two Poetry Wales events this June, one in Oxford the other in Bangor. All are welcome.
Monday 8th June, 7.30pm. Readings from Carmine Starnino and Patrick McGuinness at the Blue Sky Café, High Street, Bangor.
Wednesday 10th June, 6.30pm. Readings from Ian Gregson, Carmine Starnino, Zoë Skoulding and Patrick McGuinness at Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford.
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January 2009 Issue Still Available
The January 2009 issue is still available to buy. There are two new features on Dylan Thomas by Peter Riley and David Annwn (on Apocalypse, and a response to his encounter with Maya Deren in America, respectively). There's also an interview with Anne Cluysenaar, and the continuation of Matt Jarvis' series of retrospectives (this issue: the Seventies) …
Half Price Poetry Books with PW Subscriptions !
Seren Books are delighted to be able to offer a variety of half price offers on poetry books when you take out one year’s subscription to ’Poetry Wales’. Choose from ’Poetry Wales: Forty Years’, ’20th Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry’ or ’Welsh Verse’.This offer is currently only available to UK subscribers, click here for further details.