Poetry Wales is a quarterly magazine published in Bridgend

Bridgend

Bridgend is a town in the Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of the capital, Cardiff. The river crossed by the original bridge, which gave the town its name, is the River Ogmore but the River Ewenny also passes to the south of the town...

, Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 in the UK. It publishes poetry, articles and reviews.

Poetry Wales was founded by Meic Stephens

Meic Stephens

Meic Stephens is a Welsh author and literary journalist. Stephens studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and at the University of Rennes in France. From 1967 until 1990 Stephens was Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council...

  in 1965, and has since been edited by Sam Adams, John Powell Ward , Cary Archard, Mike Jenkins (poet)

Mike Jenkins (poet)

Mike Jenkins is a poet, story writer and novelist. Born in Aberystwyth, Jenkins was educated at the University College of Wales.Work...

, Richard Poole , Robert Minhinnick

Robert Minhinnick

Robert Minhinnick is a Welsh poet, essayist, novelist and translator.Minhinnick was born in Neath, and now lives in Porthcawl. He studied at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and University of Wales, Cardiff. An environmental campaigner, he co-founded the charities Friends of the Earth and...

 and current editor Zoe Skoulding

Zoë Skoulding

Zoë Skoulding , is a poet, writer, musician, performer, and also a lecturer in creative writing.Since 1994 she has edited the creative writing magazine Skald, more recently alongside co-editor Ian Davidson with whom she also writes collaboratively, and is the current editor of Poetry Wales.She has...

 , who assumed the role in 2008.

Former guest editors of individual issues include Deryn Rees-Jones

Deryn Rees-Jones

Deryn Rees-Jones is an Anglo Welsh poet, who lives and works in Liverpool. Although, Rees-Jones has spent much of her life in Liverpool, she spent much of her childhood in the family home of Eglwys-bach in North Wales and she thinks of herself as a Welsh writer....

, Stephen Knight (poet)

Stephen Knight (poet)

Stephen Knight is a Welsh poet and writer. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1987 and won the National Poetry Competition in 1992. He won the 2003 TLS/ Blackwells Poetry Competition for ‘The Long Way Home’. His writing deals with disappointment and decay, albeit with a lightness of...

, Gwyneth Lewis

Gwyneth Lewis

Gwyneth Lewis is a Welsh poet, and was the first National Poet for Wales.-Biography:Born into a Welsh speaking family, Lewis's father started teaching her English when her mother went into hospital to give birth to her sister....

, Paul Henry

Paul Henry

Paul Henry may refer to:*Paul-Pierre Henry , French astronomer*Paul Henry , Northern Irish artist*Paul B. Henry , U.S...

 and Duncan Bush.

Former editor Cary Archard also founded Poetry Wales Press, which trades under the name Seren

Seren

Seren may refer to:* Seren , an Israeli firm* Seren , a Welsh personal name* Seren Press, a Welsh publishing house* Seren, a lord of the Biblical Philistines* Seren, an Israel Defense Forces rank, equivalent to captain...

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Along with two other literary magazines in Wales, New Welsh Review

New Welsh Review

-History:Founded in 1988 as successor to The Welsh Review , Dock Leaves, and The Anglo-Welsh Review , New Welsh Review is Wales’s foremost literary magazine in English...

 and Planet (magazine)

Planet (magazine)

Planet is a quarterly cultural and political magazine that looks at Wales from an international perspective, and at the world from the standpoint of Wales....

, Poetry Wales receives funding from the Welsh Books Council

Welsh Books Council

The Welsh Books Council or Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru was established in 1961 under the name of Cyngor Llyfrau Cymraeg . Today it is funded by the Welsh Assembly Government. The Council's aims are to promote the interest in Welsh language books and English language books of interest to Wales...

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External links

Poetry Wales website

Academi Periodicals

Poetry Magazines website

The Poetry Society website

Poetry Book Society website