Poetry

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. [...]

ohn Barnie was born and raised in Abergavenny, and the town and surrounding countryside have played an important part in his writing. He is the author of twenty collections of poetry, as well as collections of essays, and two memoirs. In 2016 he was poet-in-residence at Oxford University's Museum of Natural History. He also plays and sings in the blues band Hollow Log. Philip Gross is a long-haul traveller in the world of poetry, with nearly 30 collections in 40 years, some prizes, 30 years enabling creativity in schools and universities, and a commitment to creating space in poems for the nuanced [...]