Poet @SerenBooks: Jerwood Prize shortlisted 2024, Laurel longlist 2024, Aesthetica shortlist 2022 | JustAnotherPoet https://xitter.cf/t.co/qquPAIcdUW | @ModronMagazine
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Honoured to have had been shortlisted for the Jerwood Poetry Prize 2024 alongside these incredible names, congratulations to the winners including my friend @clare_potter ♥️ 😍 – at Bristol, England
We would also like to congratulate our incredible shortlist this year, including Bebe Ashley, Kat François @katfrancois, Bethany Handley @Bethany1Handley, Dane Holt, Aaron Kent @GodzillaKent, Iona Lee, Jeda Pearl @JedaPearl, Momtaza Mehri, Alycia Pirmohamed @a_pirmohamed, Taz Rahman @amonochromdream, Sammy Weaver @SammyWeaverPoem and @glenhswilson.
I was reading Langston Hughes a while ago when I first started writing poetry, and the words left an indelible mark. Today's Sunday Editorial essay is: 'The Music of a People - Langston Hughes and the Afterlife of the Poem' lawnewsindex.blogspot.com/20…
I wrote this Sunday's Editorial on an ancient ecological poem from a Hindu sacred text: 'The forest listens - the ancient Sanskrit Rigveda poem ‘Ode to Aranyani’ and its ecological imagination in relation of our contemporary climate-related consciousness' lawnewsindex.blogspot.com/20…
Grateful to have had my poem 'Crossing Channels' selected for publication in the Folding Rocks mag, issue 6, showcasing 5 years of Literature Wales' writer development programme Representing Wales foldingrock.com/shop/standal…
Delighted to have had my poem 'Ramadan' included in this Cymru special edition of 'The Candyman's Trumpet', curated by Carolyn Thomas. Thanks to editor Jack Caradoc :) drive.google.com/file/d/1JOZ…
I started reading Lorca during the pandemic when he was mentioned in an Instagram conversation between Raymond Antrobus and Anthony Anaxagorou. This Sunday's Editorial is titled 'The Dark Gravity of Federico García Lorca - the Poet and the Duende' lawnewsindex.blogspot.com/20…
This is my editorial essay for this Sunday's Lawnewsindex is - 'The Rebel and the Word - Kazi Nazrul Islam and the Poetry of Revolution'. Nazrul is one of the twin canons of early 20th century Bengali poetry lawnewsindex.blogspot.com/20…
This essay has been brewing for years! In writing 'Yeats, Joyce and the Problem of Irish Independence', is this week's 'Sunday Editorial' for Lawnewsindex: lawnewsindex.blogspot.com/20…
This Sunday's editorial in Lawnewsindex is a little polemical - 'In Defence of Iolo Morganwg, Forging Wales’ Past to Preserve Its Cultural Future' lawnewsindex.blogspot.com/20…
Delighted to publish @mjenkins1927 essay 'From Devolution to Revolution: A lifelong Journey Towards an Independent, Socialist #Cymru', as this week's Sunday Editorial in Lawnewsindex. Mike is a former editor of 'Poetry Wales' & won Wales Book of the Year lawnewsindex.blogspot.com/20…
My editorial today: 'Why Virgil, Horace, and Ovid Still Matter: Latin Poetry for Twenty-First-Century Readers in Translation - Why should twenty-first-century readers continue to read poets who wrote in Latin more than two thousand years ago?' lawnewsindex.blogspot.com/20…
I'm featuring a Gareth Writer-Davies article as this Sunday's LawNewsIndex guest editorial: 'Before our private green paradises become casualties of a climate we can no longer pretend is someone else’s problem, it is time to look beyond the hedge': lawnewsindex.blogspot.com/20…
This Sunday's Lawnewsindex editorial: 'Juxtaposing the Grace and Notions of Moral Injustice in Marilynne Robinson’s masterpiece Gilead' lawnewsindex.blogspot.com/20…
I am delighted to publish the first of the guest Sunday Editorials for LawNewsIndex, a lyric essay on the critically endangered European eel by Suzanne Marie @wildernesspoet
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I had such fun being interviewed about my poetry process and how my 2024 debut collection 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' from @SerenBooks came about with the wonderful Gregory Kearns on his podcast 'The Poems We Made on the Way' podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
Taz Rahman - "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" retweeted
A poetry showcase in the Uplands, Swansea, featuring @amonochromdream and open mic poets organised by @owensheers C J Wagstaff and @guinevere_baubo - top evening!
I spoke to the wonderful @l_kiew in the latest poet interview for the 'Just Another Poet' Youtube poetry channel. This chat was a collaboration with @ModronMagazine. 'More Than Weeds' is L Kiew's stunning poetry collection published by @NineArchesPress youtube.com/watch?v=VrBFGiaR…
Delighted to be reading in Swansea on Wednesday 4th March as part of the Uplands Poetry Night curated by CJ Wagstaff and Guinevere Clark. The poetry evening will also feature an open mic line up and networking opportunity with Owen Sheers
The first poet interview of the year at the Just Another Poet Youtube poetry channel features Tracey Rhys, whose debut collection 'Bathing on the Roof' was published by Parthian Books in 2025: youtube.com/watch?v=E2SDXRky…
The 3rd instalment of the documentary conversation 'Writing Wales' is on 'Navigating Memory'. Two of Wales' finest new memoirists Lottie Williams and Sophie Calon discuss 2025 debuts 'The Edge of Everything' & 'Long Going' at the Just Another Poet: youtube.com/watch?v=-taW8fng…
In the latest 'Just Another Poet' poetry channel interview I speak to poet & writer Jasmine Donahaye: latest book 'Birdsplaining', shortlisted for 2024 Wales Book of the Year youtube.com/watch?v=PUoC9vJQ…
