Poetry

Phil Bowen is a poet, performer, biographer and playwright. Salt published Nowhere's Far - New & Selected Poems in 2008. His biography of the Mersey Poets, A Gallery to Play To was republished by Liverpool University Press also in 2008. His plays include A Handful of Rain, (an imagined meeting between Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas), and Anything But Love, an adaptation of the writings of Dorothy Parker and the lyrics of Dorothy Fields. His poem 'Blue Docs' won The Quaterly Prize for the 2023 Spring Issue of The Lyric (est 1921) Recent work includes 'Love Somehow' – a multi award [...]

Michael W. Thomas’s latest poetry collection is A Time for Such a Word (Black Pear Press). His latest novel is The Erkeley Shadows (KDP / Swan Village Reporter). His work has appeared in, among others, The Antioch Review, Critical Survey, The London Magazine and the TLS. He is on the editorial board of Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies (University of Bialystok, Poland).   Emily Cotterill is a Cardiff based poet, originally from Alfreton in Derbyshire. Her debut collection Significant Wow was published by Seren in February 2025. The collection explores themes of celebrity, story-telling and pop culture. The collection follows the 2019 pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants (smith|doorstop) which was part of [...]

A book launch of Shook Up! by Ric Hool Ric Hool has 13 collections of published poetry and is widely featured in poetry magazines & anthologies. His poetic themes include psychological and geographical impact of place, time and space on experience. He has run the reading series Poetry Upstairs in Abergavenny for 30 years. Ric Hool is from Northumberland.

A book launch of Llyn Y Fan Fach with readings from Caroline Goodwin Graham Hartill & Frank Olding. Caroline Goodwin lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is serving as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Her books include Peregrine (Finishing Line Press, 2015), Trapline (JackLeg Press 2013), and the chapbooks Kodiak Herbal and Text Me, Ishmael. She teaches at California College of the Arts and the Stanford Writer's Studio, holds a BA in Biology and an MFA from the University of British Columbia.   Graham Hartill moved to the Black Mountains in 1992. He [...]