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Salacia’s Blog: Poetry and Wine on the Welsh Coast, Aberystwyth
Salacia's Blog: Can Welsh poetry revive the dead?
In pre-Christian times, the Gaelic festival of Samhain, celebrating the end of harvest and beginning of Winter would have taken place across Wales in the form of Calan Gaeaf. This would happen about midway between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice, on a date that we now recognise as Halloween...
Salacia’s Blog: Is Contemporary Poetry in a ‘Rotten State?’ I don’t think so.
Poems from Library of Wales Poetry: 1900-2000 Selected for 2020 GCSE
Poets in the Press
We've had some lovely features, reviews and feedback for our new batch of poetry titles. First up, New Welsh Reader featured 3 of the 4 titles in their new issue, and seemed to like them... 'Rhys Owain Williams’ That Lone Ship is part of a handsome quartet of new poetry published by Parthian Books this autumn. […] In this collection, Williams explores the ghostly ripples that are cast out by everyday happenings, reflecting on and weaving together the disparate strands of experience that make up life. The poet explores the profound and the ridiculous, the private and the public, as...