Mor falch dros Alex, ein Children’s Laureate Wales, yn cael llygaid y byd ar ei waith yn y Met Gala 🌳🌹

My debut pamphlet is a year old ❤️ and in that year i’ve graduated from my MA, started my PhD and said goodbye to my Mum, and when I read from Plastic Tubed Little Bird it makes me so proud that I wrote what I did at the very beginning when I started.

Brave new poetry venue getting itself established at the heart of the South Wales Valleys. Very happy to be on board for this event.

Happening this Monday!

Thanks Buzz Magazine and ✨Mab Jones✨ for a generous review of my poetry collection 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' published by Seren buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-apr…

And the Yellow Flag in his shameless flaunting to the breeze and dusk and the ducklings...

Quite wonderfully I'm chairing the poetry showcase at the Penarth Literary Festival this year with 📚 Griffin Books 📚! Join us on the evening of 23rd June - our fantastic line up of poets soon tba!

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Interesting poem by Medbh McGuckian

Another brilliant Atomic Bohemian launch! Always appreciative of the fantastic questions that come in from the audience. They create such a buzz and lead to really interesting conversations. I always have so much fun hosting! ❤️

'It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.' - 'Faerie Queene', book IV, Edmund Spenser

Don't forget that this call for poems closes on May 8th - get your poems in now.

Today, a guest post from Dylan Jenkins of Music Theatre Wales which explores 'interbeing,' a digital opera short that delves deeply into our symbiotic relationship with nature, and draws inspiration from the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh. Music Theatre Wales

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“Desire, class and Welsh nationalism prove a combustible combination in this brooding literary romance… atmospheric and spiky.”

Thanks to Hephzibah Anderson for her brilliant review of Francesca Reece’s #GlassHouses in The Observer today!

Coming 23rd May
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Resident purr of the Aberystwyth Town Library 😍

Thanks so much Rob for the photos! It has been a pleasure being part of the Aberystwyth Poetry Festival :)

It’s #AberystwythPoetryFestival this weekend run by The Bookshop by the Sea - Aberystwyth & several of our poets will be reading! Catch Taz Rahman: East of the Sun West of the Moon, 2024 Dr Rachel Carney @katrinanaomi & Polly Atkin there across the weekend. Full details can be found here aberystwythpoetryfestival.co.uk/programme-1

I can't wait to be in Aberystwyth for the weekend, read, listen and talk poetry 😍

Thank you to Verve Poetry Press for bringing my poems out of my heart and into a book, to all who supported me on the way, the poets I've read, projects I've been involved in (creative workshops are such joy), to my friends and family and to the wonderful poets who endorsed. Diolch