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 overall winner was Estelle Price for her poem ‘iii’. The winners were as follows: 1st Prize iii — Estelle Price, Wilmslow 2nd Prize YELLOW LIGHT…

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 Oxford, wear a frilly shirt, party your way around Europe and Lord Byron was your uncle. Byron was brilliant btw. Now it’s different. …

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 you read some of the absolute drivel that is passed off as poetry by (mostly) young girls who put the word poet (in brackets) after…

If you search the Internet you can find lots of ‘Best Books Ever’ or ‘Top 100 Books To Read Before You Die’ lists. The BBC did a pretty decent ‘Big Read’ list back in 2000 as well. …

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 independent or small presses. Even though more and more people are enjoying and participating in creative writing it is becoming increasingly difficult to…

Welsh writer, poet and photographer, Dave Lewis, has just published his twentieth book, a new poetry collection — ‘Scratching The Surface‘. “An epic collage of nature, history, adventure and grief that leaps off the page and thumps you in the chest. From Celtic mythology, to the African bush and ‘The…

Welsh writer and poet Dave Lewis has just completed a week-long cycle across the north of England. He covered 275 miles, completed two iconic cycling trails: Hadrian’s Cycleway and the Sea to Sea / Coast to Coast (C2C) and has just published a book of his adventures. In the past…

How many people know that the world famous International Welsh Poetry Competition began life in a small, independent pub, tucked away down a quiet side street in Pontypridd? …

Have you ever wondered why Christmas Day (that time when we scoff too many sprouts, we get inundated with socks and our favourite pub closes weirdly early) is celebrated on December 25? Well, it wasn’t always so. In fact, for the first three centuries of Christianity’s existence, Jesus Christ’s birth…