So pleased to be featured on @inksweatandtears.co.uk today

With #SuzanneIuppa #SionAled #Patedwards @tigerbaynatasha.bsky.social #chriskinsey #megellis #MatTroy and #GarethWriter-Davies

Afonydd is back in stock! FREE #Bilingual May events - 22/05 5pm inperson & online @librarywales.bsky.social 29/05 7pm on Zoom. links arachnepress.com/events/ more events in June Swansea Cardiff BishopsCastle Brecon @swanseastones.bsky.social @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @tigerbaynatasha.bsky.social

grahamedavies talks about his #poem for #Afonydd. Hear Afonydd #poets at #events 22May-endJune online & in #Wales arachnepress.com/events @llyfraucymru.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social @librarywales.bsky.social @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @swanseastones.bsky.social @tigerbaynatasha.bsky.social

Loved sharing what inspired my poem The Severn at Llanidloes with BBC Wales! Each of the 50 poems in the Afonydd/Rivers anthology has its own genesis story.

tomorrow at 7.50 am on BBC Radio Wales Editors and poets talking about Afonydd! in the meantime an article on BBC Wales website! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... with great quotes from @tigerbaynatasha.bsky.social preorder: arachnepress.com

Next Thursday! Hope to see lots of poets there.

Absolutely elated to have made the shortlist for Borzello Trust Poetry Award! Congrats to everyone who made it through newwelshreview.com/new-welsh-wr...

NEWS! I've been hard at work with a fantastic group of fellow writers making a new online magazine about thrutopias. BENDING THE ARC launches 22nd April! Our aim is to write thriving, desirable futures into being. Pls subscribe & share! bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com

Happy place.

Happening next month! If you can't make Gwyneth's online launch tonight with guests Hanan Issa and Claire Potter (thewritingschool.co.uk/gwyneth-lewi...), come hear her read live on 8 May at Chapter! Tix £3 at the door.

Poetry Comp? Less than a month now to enter welshpoolpoetryfestival.org.uk Win some £ and these 6 lovely Candlestick titles!

Came back from holidays to find this waiting for me in the post! So proud to be one of 60 new Welsh poets featured in @poetrywales.bsky.social gorgeous 60th anniversary issue.

We're back! Excited to host the launch of Gwyneth Lewis's new collection, published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social , 8 May at Chapter.

Or, as we call it in Canada, "swimming"

Why has my fantasy Berlioz biopic directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Timothée Chalamet not been made yet?

Castle, horses, cake and warm sunshine. The perfect Saturday.

Epic views in the Beacons today under warm, cloudless skies.

Epic views in the Beacons today under warm, cloudless skies.

Art Nouveau style Daffodil Mari

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus! Happy Saint David's Day from beautiful Wales, where Glanwyn (Spring)has arrived in her white satin slippers.

The iconic Dylan Thomas Boathouse in Laugharne has been announced as the winner of a prestigious architecture award

Renée Fleming departs The Kennedy Center

I mean, how lucky am I to call this home?

Today's road trip

Fantastic anthology!

Forgot to post this last week-- living the civil service dream

Practicing self-care by tuning out the news and writing a poem featuring alpacas.

Alpacas in the mist #bannaubrycheiniog

And away we go with this year's Frost Farm Prize, and I (heaven help me) am this year's judge. And I'll be reading every entry. www.frostfarmpoetry.org/prize

Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.

Lovely to see my poem Agapanthus in the new "Sex and Relationships" issue of Black Iris Poetry. Some fantastic work in here by Lesley James, Judith Shaw and others. www.blackirispoetry.com/issue-3

In 5 words or less, start a fight not about religion or politics: Egg salad is an abomination

My former coworkers are getting death threats over disinfo/misinfo, so that's a thing that's happening today.

Delighted to have a poem in this jewel box of a birthday festschrift for Christopher Meredith, along with Robert Minhinnick, @garethwd.bsky.social Tom Bullough, Stevie Krayer, Jeremy Hooker and le tout Pays de Galles. Lovingly edited by Chris's friend David Shields.

This week @EmpirePodUK we look at THE BUILDING OF THE TAJ MAHAL linktr.ee/empirepoduk

At the cinema for Maria. I won't hate it, hopefully? 😬

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is terminating major DEI programs, effective immediately

Just read an article by someone in their late 20s saying they had been doing something for "almost half a decade" and I am deceased from old age 🫠

just got an email that someone tried to take a machete in to the Capitol where Jimmy Carter is lying in state so that’s a thing that happened

Dropped by the indie makers' Xmas market at the Millenium Centre and it's one of the nicest little markets ever! So many cute things for last minute gift ideas. #shoplocal

Had a banner poetry day! Found out @poetrywales.bsky.social has nominated my work for the @pushcartprize.bsky.social. Got another acceptance I need to keep quiet about for now, and had a great session with my Lit Walea mentor Damian Walford Davies. 🥰

It's BACK! The Poetry Wales Award (formerly Wales Poetry Award) is back with a shiny new name and logo, just in time for the new year. Open 17 Dec 24 - 17 Feb 25 with judge Jeremy Dixon, we are once again looking for your best unpublished poems! poetrywales.co.uk/award

Read the Merola news release and there are SIX Canadians in the 2025 cohort (usually it's 1-2)-- all from the Toronto area. Very few non-North Americans compared to previous seasons too. @joshuakosman.bsky.social dis they change their criteria? Were applications down from elsewhere?

TIL the Welsh for mince pie is "mins pei" #cymraeg

Delightful Christmas Market at Hay Castle yesterday.

SIMPLY HAVING A

Timmie 's time! 🍩☕

There's a British pianist performing tomorrow at @wigmore-hall.bsky.social named TIM HORTON and natürlich I'm getting a ticket. 🍩 🤣