New poetry for June: Welsh summer special – Peter Finch, Dylan Thomas’ “bastard son” & Swansea dialects
From Peter Finch to poems written in the Swansea dialect, Mab Jones finds much to celebrate on the home front, poetry-wise, this June.
From Peter Finch to poems written in the Swansea dialect, Mab Jones finds much to celebrate on the home front, poetry-wise, this June.
Zen koans, true spellcasters, new visions of reality, transmutations of the everyday and, in one case, a lot of cow talk. It's all in Mab Jones' monthly poetry column.
Mab Jones is back with another brace of poetry reviews for April, from Astrid Alben's Little Dead Rabbit to Hannah Hodgson's 163 Days.
In Mab Jones' first poetry column of the year, Welsh poet Lauren Thomas pens love letters to her home landscape, and SK Grout ponders What Would Love Smell Like.
Hailed as "the patron saint of poetry," Roger McGough is on fine form in his latest fantastic collection, Safety In Numbers.
A series of personal testimonies which stand witness to ‘everyday sexism,’ Kim Moore's All The Men I Never Married is sharp, searing and honest.
Mab Jones serves up a Welsher than usual selection of poetry this month, with best-ofs by south Wales faves Patrick Jones and Tôpher Mills, among others.
Mab Jones’ latest appreciation of verse opens with an appreciation of Wordsworth – William’s sister Dorothy that is – but never fear, it’s still new! And it’s, as Mab says of her first subject, “a sheer joy to read”.
Welcome to the first of Buzz’s monthly roundups of fine independent poetry! Welsh, British and international verse will feature in here, selected and appraised by our writer with her ear to the poetic ground, Mab Jones.
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