I Sing to the Greenhearts: Maggie Harris, Seren
Maggie Harris was born in Guyana and now lives in Broadstairs, Kent. She has won the Guyana Prize for Literature, was regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014, and won the Wales Poetry Award in 2020. She has worked as a creative writing tutor, reader development worker and International Teaching Fellow and has collaborated with artists across genres since 1990. In 2024 she was aw...
27th March 2025
Significant Wow: Emily Cotterill, Seren
This first full-length collection by Cardiff-based poet Emily Cotterill follows on from her debut poetry pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants published by Smith / Doorstop in 2019 which was selected by Carol Ann Duffy as part of the Laureate’s Choice series. Both deliver with a large dose of original...
13th March 2025
Teesside poets say fond farewell to Smokestack
It was a foggy night on Teesside and a warm if slightly melancholy evening for the final farewell of Smokestack Books, which publisher Andy Croft closed for new titles last Christmas after 20 years. P...
10th March 2025
‘We’ll be back …’: closing words of compere at Words on the Wall ‘finale’
All good things must come to an end – or at least, a pause, in the case of Hexham’s very popular poetry event Words on the Wall. There was an impressive turnout for what masterly compere Joe Williams ...
10th March 2025
Janus: Catherine Ayres, Indigo Dreams
Sometimes slim volumes open up much bigger worlds and pack a punch beyond 30 pages of text. The title and the cover of Janus suggest a gaze, both forward and backward. The structure of the book, thoug...
3rd March 2025
