Launch get-together
Join us to network, chat, read, share with POETRY WALES to celebrate this brand new issue.- Spring 2026 / The Lyric
Writing to retreat to, recharge in, and rediscover what sustains us and keeps us moving forward.
With work by Arthur Sze, Hanan Issa, Abeer Ameer, Daniel Sluman and Andrew McNeillie.
This edition features:
A roundtable on the lyric, with musings from this issues’ poets on one of the oldest and most familiar forms of poetry – and how knowing the rules can help us to paint outside the lines;
A conversation between US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze and Zoë Brigley about endangered languages, translation, shaping laureateship on his own terms, and his new collection Into the Hush;
A spotlight on National Poet of Wales Hanan Issa and Manon Steffan Ros’ Santes Dwynwen project –including illustrations by Mythsntits and translation by Meleri Davies;
Clecs with Abeer Ameer, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written) 2025;
and Bronwen Price, CEO and Head of Editorial for Seren Books and Poetry Wales on what publishers are looking for when commissioning prose, and the art of matchmaking writers and editors.