Devolving Poetry: Questions, Directions
This is a brief edited extract from a research paper that Matthew Jarvis gave to the Department of English & Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University on 24 October 2012. The passage presented...
View ArticleNational identities: some thoughts about data from the 2011 Census
I’ve been interested by statistics to do with national identities in post-devolution Wales for quite a while, and the recent Welsh Devolution in Perspective conference at the British Academy got me...
View ArticleHalf-told tales
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch has become one of the most notable of Wales’s post-1997 cohort of poets. Published now by Picador, her latest volume is Banjo – a collection which Alice Entwistle praised to...
View ArticlePoetry and public issues
John Redmond’s recent book from Seren, Poetry and Privacy: Questioning Public Interpretations of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (2013), puts forward an argument that poetry is all too often read...
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Reviews and reach
As part of our work on the Devolved Voices project, researcher Kathryn Gray has compiled a bibliography of reviews of work (pamphlets and collections) by our post-1997 cohort of poets. Drawing on this,...
View ArticleIn the middle of it
The middle part of the Devolved Voices project has been all about building up the bulk of our materials and analysis. Most obviously, perhaps, Kathryn Gray has been adding wonderful material to the...
View ArticleThe ‘collapsed lyric’
Recently, I’ve enjoyed reading Nerys Williams’s interview with Alice Entwistle in the book In Her Own Words: Women Talking Poetry and Wales (published by Seren last year). Williams is an intriguing...
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Public lecture on the poetry of Nerys Williams
I will be giving my next Devolved Voices public lecture on Friday 3rd July, at 6.30pm, in the Gas Gallery, Aberystwyth. My subject in this session is the poetry of Nerys Williams, whose debut volume...
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