Estelle Price Wins Welsh Poetry Competition
The International Welsh Poetry Competition 2021 organisers have announced the winners of their prestigious 15th contest, judged by award-winning Welsh poet Kathy Miles, and the […]
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Portsmouth Poetry
Portsmouth Poetry is a website and mixed arts organisation based on the south coast formed and run by two proud Welsh people, one from West […]
Deadline Extended! Welsh Poetry Competition
The international Welsh Poetry Competition is now in its 15th year and so in order to give even more poets a chance to enter we’ve extended the […]
Send Us Your Indie Poetry Books
The Poetry Book Awards is an annual, international book award given to the best poetry books produced by indie writers, self published authors or books published by […]
Welsh Book Store
There seems to be a bit of a revolution in the book world happening at the moment. Lots of people, retailers, especially the smaller outlets […]
Jocelyn Simms Wins The International Poetry Book Awards
The contest organisers have announced the winners of their prestigious contest, judged by Welsh poet and writer Dave Lewis, and the overall winner was Jocelyn Simms for her book […]
How to Sell Your Poetry Books
Getting your poetry book published (or self published) was the easy bit. Now the real work begins – trying to get people to buy a […]
Poetry Book Awards
Founded in Pontypridd, South Wales the international ‘Poetry Book Awards’ gives self published writers and small indie press authors a chance to gain recognition in […]
Sheila Aldous Wins The International Poetry Competition!
Huge congratulations to Sheila Aldous, who takes top prize in the 2020 contest! A fantastic poem, Sheila also came 4th with another fabulous entry. The […]
Covid-19 and 2020 Contest
As most of the world is aware we have had to deal with Covid-19 these last few months. In fact, through all of the timeframe […]
Poetry Exercise
First of all I have to admit I rarely do this kind of thing myself. I will certainly research facts and figures if I have […]
International Poetry Book Awards
The Poetry Book Awards is an annual, international book award given to the best poetry books produced by indie writers, self published authors or books […]
Welsh Authors
We mentioned Goodreads in a previous post. Well here is another list for you to vote in or add some of your favourite Welsh books […]
New Poetry Collection
Welsh writer Dave Lewis’s new poetry collection – ‘Scratching The Surface‘ is now available for pre-order. The kindle version can be pre-ordered at the reduced […]
Damen O’Brien Wins Welsh Poetry Competition!
The International Welsh Poetry Competition 2019 organisers have announced the winners of the 13th contest, judged by acclaimed Welsh poet and writer Mike Jenkins, and […]
Creating the Right Atmosphere for Writing
Writer’s block is a much-talked-about condition, and it’s something that most poets can relate to. There’s nothing more frustrating than settling down to write, only […]
How To Get Your Poetry Published
Getting your poetry published is a tricky business. Hundreds of years ago it was easy. You just needed to be posh, get sent down from […]
Red Poets – A History
It seems astonishing to think that Red Poets have produced 24 issues (to date) representing 24 years of our existence, when issue no. 1 was […]
How do you write a good poem?
What a strange question! OK, maybe not. For what it’s worth, here’s what I think… I often wonder what constitutes good these days. Especially when […]