Hi everyone, I just wanted to flag up that MODRON is open for submissions right now. Here is the call for submissions, open until 8th May 2024. Photograph by Kristian Evans The submissions window for issue 4 of MODRON will be open from Thursday 11th April to Wednesday 8th May. As ever, we welcome all [...]
Introduction
Zoë Brigley Thompson is the author of three books of poetry: Hand & Skull (2019), Conquest (2012), and The Secret (2007), all published by Bloodaxe. She also has a collection of nonfiction essays, Notes from a Swing State (Parthian 2019), and edited the academic volume Feminism, Literature, and Rape Narratives (with Sorcha Gunne).
Recommendations
"Zoë Brigley is one of the best poets writing today.” – Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones & You Could Make This Place Beautiful
about this site
Back in 2004, I started a blog called The Midnight Heart via Warwick Blogs, which the Times Higher Education Supplement listed as one to watch. This new site is a continuation of what I started there.
Blog
Asking for It: Problems of Campaigns Around Anti-Violence Prevention
Content warning: images of violence in advertising, mention of sexual violence, intimate partner violence and rape myths in the context of advertising campaigns and public messaging for anti-violence prevention. International Women's Day is almost upon us, and I wanted to touch on a subject related to my anti-violence work and teaching. This week, CPB London [...]
Books from the Seren/Poetry Wales Team for the New Year
I wrote earlier in the month about books by our new contributing editors, and I just wanted to highlight publications from colleagues in the office as well as my own current and upcoming projects. EMPTY TRAINS BY GEORGE SANDIFER SMITH First is our Reviews Editor at Poetry Wales George Sandifer Smith, who has two great [...]
Winter Holiday Gift List 1: Books from Poetry Wales’s Contributing Editors
This year, if you are looking for a poetry gift, please think of checking out some of these books from our current contributing editors at Poetry Wales: Fahad Al-Amoudi, when the flies come Shortlisted for the Michael Marks Pamphlet Prize In this rewarding debut pamphlet, Fahad Al-Amoudi blurs the lines between national and personal memory. [...]
Reflecting on the Poetry Wales Winter Holiday Reading 28th November: Economic Stress
Tonight we had the Poetry Wales winter holiday reading, and I am reflecting on a set of wonderful poems read beautifully by contributors. The event was to celebrate issue 59.2 - the mustard yellow issue! - and there were a few strands that seemed important in the poems included, as well as just some great work, as [...]
Tŷ Newydd – come join me in July 2024!
I have had a wonderful time teaching at Tŷ Newydd the past two summers, and I wanted to flag up that I will be back again in July 2024. The course is called "Editing and Submitting Your Work with Poetry Wales", and it will feature myself, my colleague Rhian Edwards, and that's along with a [...]
National Poetry Day 2023: Reading a Poem
Here's a poem for National Poetry Day. It's a found poem taking lines from real and fictional love letters - some by famous lovers, renowned writers, and fictional characters too. I wonder if you recognize any of them? Also check out what we have arranged at Poetry Wales: you can read a whole issue today for free via our partners Exact Editions today in celebration of National Poetry Day (check out links in our socials), and there is a moving post taking a moment to mourn the Sycamore Gap tree over at MODRON Magazine
Call For Submissions: Poetry Wales 59.3: Home in a Time of Ecological Emergency
Call for Submissions For our Spring 2024 issue of Poetry Wales 59.3, we will be joined by two Contributing Editors: Welsh writer Taylor Edmonds (who was previously a Contributing Editor for Poetry Wales 58.2) and Obsidian Foundation alumni Tangie Mitchell. Taylor is an excellent Welsh writer with a great first pamphlet out and who was involved in setting up Where I'm Coming [...]
Call for Submissions: MODRON
Photo by Markus Spiske on Pexels.com Here's a call from my colleague Kristian Evans from the magazine we founded together and edit with Taz Rahman, Siân Melangell Dafydd, and Glyn Edwards. Hello to our readers! For issue 3, MODRON magazine is opening for its first poetry submission period from August 25th – September 15th 2023. This year, National [...]
UK Writers! The Society of Authors Grants and Awards are Closing to Submissions at the end of October
When I was in my early twenties back in 2003, I was lucky enough to be awarded an Eric Gregory Award, which is for the best British poets under 30. The deadline for the Society of Authors Awards is coming up at the end of October and it is surprising how many writers do not [...]
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