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Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social · Sep 4

Out next month: three brand new poetry collections from Parthian…

Graveyards On Other Planets – Roberto Pastore

Breakfast with the Scavengers – Ben Rhys Palmer

Moon Base One – Jemma L. King

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · Aug 30

This is such a welcome, life-affirming & diverse edition of BBCRadio4 The Verb. Top form delivery from @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @lenniesaurus.bsky.social, Alex Wharton, @natholborow.bsky.social & Ian McMillan
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BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, The Adverb at the Hay Festival 2025

Ian McMillan presents poets in performance for The Verb's performance wing, The Adverb.

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Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social · Sep 4

Out Now: New Welsh Review #138

Print single issue: www.parthianbooks.com/collections/...

Digital subscription:
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Edited by yours truly with a wonderful new logo and magazine design by Olwen Fowler.

New Welsh Review 138

Edited by Susie Wild Founded in 1988, New Welsh Review is Wales’s foremost literary magazine in English. For over thirty years, it has been central to the Welsh literary scene in offering a vital outl...

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Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social · May 22

Interview by @zoebrigley.bsky.social @modronmagazine.bsky.social

Welcome back to our series on writing the #MoreThanHuman. We offer a set of interviews with poets and writers on how they approach writing about the environment.

The More Than Human Perspective in Environmental Poetry: A Poem and Interview with Susie Wild

An author photograph of Susie Wild Interview by Zoë Brigley Welcome back to our series on writing the #MoreThanHuman. We offer a set of interviews with poets and writers on how they approach writin…

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Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social · May 11

We're absolutely delighted for Natalie Ann Holborow, today shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year Award 2025 for her third poetry collection, the stellar 'Little Universe' (Parthian Books). Thanks to all the judges and huge congratulations to all the other wonderful writers on the shortlist!

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New Welsh Review @newwelshreview.bsky.social · Apr 24

Delighted to reveal the shortlisted writers and poets in the New Welsh Writing Awards! The winners (announced on the 3/7) for both The Rheidol Prize & The Borzello Trust Poetry Prize will receive a development publishing contract with @parthianbooks.bsky.social!
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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · Apr 17

📚 Free Verse Poetry Book & Magazine Fair is just DAYS away! In the build-up to one of the biggest events in the poetry calendar, we are continuing to showcase all of the publishers you will find at the Fair.

This batch includes: ourselves, Arachne Press, the National Poetry Library, (...)

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · Feb 15

To be able to process the craziness of the world is one thing: to make sense of it is quite another. And then to write about it in coruscatingly brilliant, blistering prose is altogether something else ✍️ Jon Gower wp.me/p8Mk4U-Vj1

Book review: From the Senedd to the Rooftops by Ben Wildsmith

Jon Gower I knew I would end up crying as I re-read ‘The Gambler,’ one of the Ben Wildsmith’s consistently probing and morally questioning bi-weekly columns for Nation.Cymru. Tenderly powerful and pow...

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Kathryn Gray @kathryngray.bsky.social · Jan 26

Bad Lilies returns, with much joy, to a screen near you next month. We’ve some beautiful poems in store for you. Follow us on @badlilies.bsky.social if you don’t already. 🌸

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · Jan 26

I'll be launching my first full collection on April 10 at Waterstones Cardiff with fellow Parthian stablemate, the superb Christina Thatcher. We would love love LOVE to see you there! www.waterstones.com/events/poetr...

Poetry Launch: Tracey Rhys and Christina Thatcher | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Poetry Launch: Tracey Rhys and Christina Thatcher today.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · Jan 24

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #322: Don’t be afraid of failure. Every artist you’ve ever heard of has tried and failed countless times. Failures show you’re trying new things, taking risks, learning. Failure is a necessary step on the road to success.

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · Jan 24

#poetry competition open to all #Erasurepoetry #ecopoetry Judged by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Supporting the campaign to Save Penrhos Nature Reserve. Please share.🙏

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Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social · Jan 17

‘Markham’s novel makes inventive use of a well-worn literary motif, using it to consider the workings of power from a perspective not often seen in fiction from Wales. It deserves to be read far more widely.’ — JL George, New Welsh Review

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Fox Bites

When Taban wishes for the world to end something out there . . . hears him.Soon the young boy is being stalked by a fox whose salivating jaws drag him into strange dreams. Dreams where he is a revolut...

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Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social · Jan 16

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This Common Uncommon

When a local common is threatened with development, one poet explores its secrets, discovering extraordinary natural treasures and wonderful people fighting to defend them. Can they save this uncommon...

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Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social · Jan 16

‘a fierce and loving affirmation of the local, exemplifying the sort of care-full attention to the interdependence of people, other animals and plants that will be required if anything worthwhile is to be saved from the present ruin.’ - Steven Lovatt reviews This Common Uncommon in New Welsh Review

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · Jan 16

Lovely evening listening to @natholborow.bsky.social reading from her new collection ‘Little Universe’ at the Murenger poetry night. Great to catch up @kain-author.bsky.social and Channing 💫

Cover of little universe poetry book, black background, a pencil lined hand with flowers and planets

Photo of Natalie in black and white spotted dress and long scarf, reading aloud from her poetry book

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Parthian Books @parthianbooks.bsky.social · Jan 7

New year, new books? Yes please!
We've got lots of exciting titles coming out this year so have a little gander on our pre-order page and kick off those 2025 reading lists.
www.parthianbooks.com/collections/...

A banner image displaying upcoming book releases by Parthian. Top row (left to right) Boundary Waters, This Rooms is Impossible To Eat, Behind the Scenes: The Dramatic Lives of Philip Burton, Measuring the Distance, The Plankton Collector, Earwitness: A Search for Sonic Understanding in Stories. Bottom row (left to right) The Transplantable Roots of Catharine Huws Nagashima: Encounters with the Welsh in Japan, Bushmeat, Breaking A Mare, Slatehead, Street-fighting and Other Past Times.

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Parthian Books @parthianbooks.bsky.social · Jan 14

Tomorrow night at 7:30pm with @natholborow.bsky.social ✨

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Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social · Jan 14

Thanks @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social

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Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social · Jan 1

So grateful to have been a part of this wonderful new issue of Modron Magazine (and to have had a lovely afternoon in a very rainy Oxwich filming with my good friend Taz Rahman then warming up with coffee) ☕ 🌊

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#writing #poetry #ecopoetry #wales

FEATURE VIDEO: a Poem and Interview with Natalie Ann Holborow

Produced by Taz Rahman

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · Jan 10

Thought I'd curate a Starter Park of writers living & working in Wales 🖋️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 drop me a line if you'd like to be added!

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#WelshWriters #WtitingCommunity #Wales

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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · Jan 1

31. SLOVAKIA

The Equestrienne by Uršula Kovalyk, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood
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Karolína grows up with her hard-drinking and hilarious mum and grandma in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic of the 1980s.

Adored this.

#ReadTheWorld
#WomenInTranslation

Another 'reading in a hammock amongst trees' pic of this fabulous little novella.

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Parthian Books @parthianbooks.bsky.social · Jan 10

The Borzello Trust Poetry Prize is seeking 6 unpublished poems with one focusing on the theme of churchyards.

Winning a £500 publishing contract and with 5 runner ups receiving £150 and publication in a special poetry anthology for sixth forms and libraries.

newwelshreview.com/award-page/b...

The Borzello Trust Poetry Prize - New Welsh Review

In our tenth year of the New Welsh Writing Awards we are delighted to open a new category supporting the development of poets living, working or from Wales with thanks to the generous support of The B...

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Parthian Books @parthianbooks.bsky.social · Jan 10

🚨Don’t miss this #writingopportunity 🚨
The New Welsh Writing Awards are open for entries closing 31/1/25!

The Rheidol Prize - looking for new fiction and prose up to 5,000 words in length. Winning a £1000 development publishing contract with Parthian Books.

newwelshreview.com/award-page/t....

The Rheidol Prize: For Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting - New Welsh Review

The Rheidol Prize: For Prose with Welsh Theme or Setting has championed new voices and the development of writers for the past ten years with thanks to the generous support from R. S. Powell. We are d...

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Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social · Jan 14

I’m judging the Borzello Trust Poetry Prize with the wonderful Niall Griffiths! Get those entries in… deadline 31 January 2025!
newwelshreview.com/new-welsh-wr...
Good luck, we’re looking forward to reading your entries!

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