Poetry Book Awards – Short List
The organisers of the international Poetry Book Awards have announced the shortlist for their 2024 contest. Our judge, Mick Evans, has just announced our shortlist. It was […]
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Winners Announced!
The 2024 winners from the 18th International Welsh Poetry Competition were announced today. Award-winning poet and judge, Kathy Miles said, “Judging a poetry competition is […]
Poetry Book Awards
The international Poetry Book Awards have just announced the Top 25 winners for 2024: www.poetrybookawards.co.uk Longlist (in no particular order) A Party Business – Roger […]
Opportunity: Big Welsh Rhyme Time Commissions 2025
Book Trust Cymru : Big Welsh Rhyme Time We are inviting authors, poets, writers, musicians, performers and children’s storytellers to help us create some special […]
Welsh Poet Warns Of Dystopian Future
Welsh writer Dave Lewis launches his new poetry collection with a savage attack on artificial intelligence (AI) and the negative effects it is already having […]
Our 17th International Poetry Contest Now Open!
The International Welsh Poetry Competition returns with judge, Mick Evans, picking the winners. This will be our 17th year of running the competition and we expect a […]
Wanted – 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 […]
Callout For 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 […]
Africa Poems – Selected Works
Welsh writer Dave Lewis has just launched his 11th poetry collection, an anthology of the ‘Africa-themed’ poems that have appeared in all his previous collections. […]
Poetry Contest 2022 – Call For Entries!
Wales‘ biggest (and some would say best) poetry contest is now open again and accepting entries! The International Welsh Poetry Competition returns with judge, John Evans, picking […]
Jenny Mitchell Wins Poetry Book Awards 2021
The organisers of the Pontypridd-based international Poetry Book Awards have announced the winners of the 2021 contest. Congratulations to Jenny Mitchell for her collection ‘Map […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
