Poetry

Path presents Chris Torrance's own compilation of his later work, finalised in 2017. The characteristically varied and wide-ranging poems in this major new collection can be read as continuations of the Magic Door sequence, crowning 50 years of Torrance's writing life in rural Wales. 'The character humanises the landscape, and the landscape gives the character his larger dimension: so that, idiosyncratic and fallible as he is, Torrance's persona, his consciousness, can stand for each of us: reaching into the real contexts of being human with an energy and grasp that proffer them to his reader, to share. Torrance enlarges and deepens the world for [...]

Gareth Writer-Davies is from Pencelli, Wales He was Longlisted for the National Poetry Competition last year and has been Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize three times. He was Prole Laureate for 2017 and Winner of the Wirral Festival Poetry Competition in 2023. He was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2019. He has five previous poetry publications and will be reading from his most recent, Memento Mori. Natasha Gauthier is a Canadian poet and journalist living in Cardiff. She placed first out of thousands of entries in the 2025 Poetry Wales Award and also won the 2025 New Welsh Review/Borzello Trust Prize for poetry. [...]