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Susie Wild | Poet / Writer | Editor, New Welsh Review | Publishing Editor, Parthian Books | Books include: Windfalls, Better Houses, The Art of Contraception | Wales, UK |
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Out next month: three brand new poetry collections from Parthian…
Graveyards On Other Planets – Roberto Pastore
Breakfast with the Scavengers – Ben Rhys Palmer
Moon Base One – Jemma L. King
Graveyards On Other Planets – Roberto Pastore
Breakfast with the Scavengers – Ben Rhys Palmer
Moon Base One – Jemma L. King
September 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Out next month: three brand new poetry collections from Parthian…
Graveyards On Other Planets – Roberto Pastore
Breakfast with the Scavengers – Ben Rhys Palmer
Moon Base One – Jemma L. King
Graveyards On Other Planets – Roberto Pastore
Breakfast with the Scavengers – Ben Rhys Palmer
Moon Base One – Jemma L. King
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This is such a welcome, life-affirming & diverse edition of BBCRadio4 The Verb. Top form delivery from @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @lenniesaurus.bsky.social, Alex Wharton, @natholborow.bsky.social & Ian McMillan
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BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, The Adverb at the Hay Festival 2025
Ian McMillan presents poets in performance for The Verb's performance wing, The Adverb.
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August 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
This is such a welcome, life-affirming & diverse edition of BBCRadio4 The Verb. Top form delivery from @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @lenniesaurus.bsky.social, Alex Wharton, @natholborow.bsky.social & Ian McMillan
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Out Now: New Welsh Review #138
Print single issue: www.parthianbooks.com/collections/...
Digital subscription:
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Edited by yours truly with a wonderful new logo and magazine design by Olwen Fowler.
Print single issue: www.parthianbooks.com/collections/...
Digital subscription:
shop.exacteditions.com/gb/new-welsh...
Edited by yours truly with a wonderful new logo and magazine design by Olwen Fowler.
New Welsh Review 138
Edited by Susie Wild
Founded in 1988, New Welsh Review is Wales’s foremost literary magazine in English. For over thirty years, it has been central to the Welsh literary scene in offering a vital outl...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Out Now: New Welsh Review #138
Print single issue: www.parthianbooks.com/collections/...
Digital subscription:
shop.exacteditions.com/gb/new-welsh...
Edited by yours truly with a wonderful new logo and magazine design by Olwen Fowler.
Print single issue: www.parthianbooks.com/collections/...
Digital subscription:
shop.exacteditions.com/gb/new-welsh...
Edited by yours truly with a wonderful new logo and magazine design by Olwen Fowler.
Interview by @zoebrigley.bsky.social @modronmagazine.bsky.social
Welcome back to our series on writing the #MoreThanHuman. We offer a set of interviews with poets and writers on how they approach writing about the environment.
Welcome back to our series on writing the #MoreThanHuman. We offer a set of interviews with poets and writers on how they approach writing about the environment.
The More Than Human Perspective in Environmental Poetry: A Poem and Interview with Susie Wild
An author photograph of Susie Wild Interview by Zoë Brigley Welcome back to our series on writing the #MoreThanHuman. We offer a set of interviews with poets and writers on how they approach writin…
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May 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Interview by @zoebrigley.bsky.social @modronmagazine.bsky.social
Welcome back to our series on writing the #MoreThanHuman. We offer a set of interviews with poets and writers on how they approach writing about the environment.
Welcome back to our series on writing the #MoreThanHuman. We offer a set of interviews with poets and writers on how they approach writing about the environment.
We're absolutely delighted for Natalie Ann Holborow, today shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year Award 2025 for her third poetry collection, the stellar 'Little Universe' (Parthian Books). Thanks to all the judges and huge congratulations to all the other wonderful writers on the shortlist!
May 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We're absolutely delighted for Natalie Ann Holborow, today shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year Award 2025 for her third poetry collection, the stellar 'Little Universe' (Parthian Books). Thanks to all the judges and huge congratulations to all the other wonderful writers on the shortlist!
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Delighted to reveal the shortlisted writers and poets in the New Welsh Writing Awards! The winners (announced on the 3/7) for both The Rheidol Prize & The Borzello Trust Poetry Prize will receive a development publishing contract with @parthianbooks.bsky.social!
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April 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Delighted to reveal the shortlisted writers and poets in the New Welsh Writing Awards! The winners (announced on the 3/7) for both The Rheidol Prize & The Borzello Trust Poetry Prize will receive a development publishing contract with @parthianbooks.bsky.social!
newwelshreview.com/new-welsh-wr...
newwelshreview.com/new-welsh-wr...
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📚 Free Verse Poetry Book & Magazine Fair is just DAYS away! In the build-up to one of the biggest events in the poetry calendar, we are continuing to showcase all of the publishers you will find at the Fair.
This batch includes: ourselves, Arachne Press, the National Poetry Library, (...)
This batch includes: ourselves, Arachne Press, the National Poetry Library, (...)
April 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📚 Free Verse Poetry Book & Magazine Fair is just DAYS away! In the build-up to one of the biggest events in the poetry calendar, we are continuing to showcase all of the publishers you will find at the Fair.
This batch includes: ourselves, Arachne Press, the National Poetry Library, (...)
This batch includes: ourselves, Arachne Press, the National Poetry Library, (...)
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To be able to process the craziness of the world is one thing: to make sense of it is quite another. And then to write about it in coruscatingly brilliant, blistering prose is altogether something else ✍️ Jon Gower wp.me/p8Mk4U-Vj1
Book review: From the Senedd to the Rooftops by Ben Wildsmith
Jon Gower I knew I would end up crying as I re-read ‘The Gambler,’ one of the Ben Wildsmith’s consistently probing and morally questioning bi-weekly columns for Nation.Cymru. Tenderly powerful and pow...
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February 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
To be able to process the craziness of the world is one thing: to make sense of it is quite another. And then to write about it in coruscatingly brilliant, blistering prose is altogether something else ✍️ Jon Gower wp.me/p8Mk4U-Vj1
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Bad Lilies returns, with much joy, to a screen near you next month. We’ve some beautiful poems in store for you. Follow us on @badlilies.bsky.social if you don’t already. 🌸
January 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Bad Lilies returns, with much joy, to a screen near you next month. We’ve some beautiful poems in store for you. Follow us on @badlilies.bsky.social if you don’t already. 🌸
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I'll be launching my first full collection on April 10 at Waterstones Cardiff with fellow Parthian stablemate, the superb Christina Thatcher. We would love love LOVE to see you there! www.waterstones.com/events/poetr...
Poetry Launch: Tracey Rhys and Christina Thatcher | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Poetry Launch: Tracey Rhys and Christina Thatcher today.
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January 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I'll be launching my first full collection on April 10 at Waterstones Cardiff with fellow Parthian stablemate, the superb Christina Thatcher. We would love love LOVE to see you there! www.waterstones.com/events/poetr...
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. #322: Don’t be afraid of failure. Every artist you’ve ever heard of has tried and failed countless times. Failures show you’re trying new things, taking risks, learning. Failure is a necessary step on the road to success.
January 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. #322: Don’t be afraid of failure. Every artist you’ve ever heard of has tried and failed countless times. Failures show you’re trying new things, taking risks, learning. Failure is a necessary step on the road to success.
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#poetry competition open to all #Erasurepoetry #ecopoetry Judged by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Supporting the campaign to Save Penrhos Nature Reserve. Please share.🙏
Supporting the campaign to Save Penrhos Nature Reserve. Please share.🙏
January 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#poetry competition open to all #Erasurepoetry #ecopoetry Judged by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Supporting the campaign to Save Penrhos Nature Reserve. Please share.🙏
Supporting the campaign to Save Penrhos Nature Reserve. Please share.🙏
‘Markham’s novel makes inventive use of a well-worn literary motif, using it to consider the workings of power from a perspective not often seen in fiction from Wales. It deserves to be read far more widely.’ — JL George, New Welsh Review
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Fox Bites
When Taban wishes for the world to end something out there . . . hears him.Soon the young boy is being stalked by a fox whose salivating jaws drag him into strange dreams. Dreams where he is a revolut...
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January 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
‘Markham’s novel makes inventive use of a well-worn literary motif, using it to consider the workings of power from a perspective not often seen in fiction from Wales. It deserves to be read far more widely.’ — JL George, New Welsh Review
www.parthianbooks.com/products/fox...
www.parthianbooks.com/products/fox...
‘a fierce and loving affirmation of the local, exemplifying the sort of care-full attention to the interdependence of people, other animals and plants that will be required if anything worthwhile is to be saved from the present ruin.’ - Steven Lovatt reviews This Common Uncommon in New Welsh Review
January 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
‘a fierce and loving affirmation of the local, exemplifying the sort of care-full attention to the interdependence of people, other animals and plants that will be required if anything worthwhile is to be saved from the present ruin.’ - Steven Lovatt reviews This Common Uncommon in New Welsh Review
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Lovely evening listening to @natholborow.bsky.social reading from her new collection ‘Little Universe’ at the Murenger poetry night. Great to catch up @kain-author.bsky.social and Channing 💫
January 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Lovely evening listening to @natholborow.bsky.social reading from her new collection ‘Little Universe’ at the Murenger poetry night. Great to catch up @kain-author.bsky.social and Channing 💫
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New year, new books? Yes please!
We've got lots of exciting titles coming out this year so have a little gander on our pre-order page and kick off those 2025 reading lists.
www.parthianbooks.com/collections/...
We've got lots of exciting titles coming out this year so have a little gander on our pre-order page and kick off those 2025 reading lists.
www.parthianbooks.com/collections/...
January 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
New year, new books? Yes please!
We've got lots of exciting titles coming out this year so have a little gander on our pre-order page and kick off those 2025 reading lists.
www.parthianbooks.com/collections/...
We've got lots of exciting titles coming out this year so have a little gander on our pre-order page and kick off those 2025 reading lists.
www.parthianbooks.com/collections/...
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Tomorrow night at 7:30pm with @natholborow.bsky.social ✨
January 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Tomorrow night at 7:30pm with @natholborow.bsky.social ✨
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So grateful to have been a part of this wonderful new issue of Modron Magazine (and to have had a lovely afternoon in a very rainy Oxwich filming with my good friend Taz Rahman then warming up with coffee) ☕ 🌊
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#writing #poetry #ecopoetry #wales
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#writing #poetry #ecopoetry #wales
FEATURE VIDEO: a Poem and Interview with Natalie Ann Holborow
Produced by Taz Rahman
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January 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
So grateful to have been a part of this wonderful new issue of Modron Magazine (and to have had a lovely afternoon in a very rainy Oxwich filming with my good friend Taz Rahman then warming up with coffee) ☕ 🌊
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#writing #poetry #ecopoetry #wales
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#writing #poetry #ecopoetry #wales
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Thought I'd curate a Starter Park of writers living & working in Wales 🖋️🏴 drop me a line if you'd like to be added!
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#WelshWriters #WtitingCommunity #Wales
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#WelshWriters #WtitingCommunity #Wales
January 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Thought I'd curate a Starter Park of writers living & working in Wales 🖋️🏴 drop me a line if you'd like to be added!
go.bsky.app/7L23QS7
#WelshWriters #WtitingCommunity #Wales
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#WelshWriters #WtitingCommunity #Wales
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31. SLOVAKIA
The Equestrienne by Uršula Kovalyk, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood
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Karolína grows up with her hard-drinking and hilarious mum and grandma in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic of the 1980s.
Adored this.
#ReadTheWorld
#WomenInTranslation
The Equestrienne by Uršula Kovalyk, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood
@parthianbooks.bsky.social
Karolína grows up with her hard-drinking and hilarious mum and grandma in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic of the 1980s.
Adored this.
#ReadTheWorld
#WomenInTranslation
January 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
31. SLOVAKIA
The Equestrienne by Uršula Kovalyk, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood
@parthianbooks.bsky.social
Karolína grows up with her hard-drinking and hilarious mum and grandma in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic of the 1980s.
Adored this.
#ReadTheWorld
#WomenInTranslation
The Equestrienne by Uršula Kovalyk, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood
@parthianbooks.bsky.social
Karolína grows up with her hard-drinking and hilarious mum and grandma in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic of the 1980s.
Adored this.
#ReadTheWorld
#WomenInTranslation
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The Borzello Trust Poetry Prize is seeking 6 unpublished poems with one focusing on the theme of churchyards.
Winning a £500 publishing contract and with 5 runner ups receiving £150 and publication in a special poetry anthology for sixth forms and libraries.
newwelshreview.com/award-page/b...
Winning a £500 publishing contract and with 5 runner ups receiving £150 and publication in a special poetry anthology for sixth forms and libraries.
newwelshreview.com/award-page/b...
The Borzello Trust Poetry Prize - New Welsh Review
In our tenth year of the New Welsh Writing Awards we are delighted to open a new category supporting the development of poets living, working or from Wales with thanks to the generous support of The B...
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January 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Borzello Trust Poetry Prize is seeking 6 unpublished poems with one focusing on the theme of churchyards.
Winning a £500 publishing contract and with 5 runner ups receiving £150 and publication in a special poetry anthology for sixth forms and libraries.
newwelshreview.com/award-page/b...
Winning a £500 publishing contract and with 5 runner ups receiving £150 and publication in a special poetry anthology for sixth forms and libraries.
newwelshreview.com/award-page/b...
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🚨Don’t miss this #writingopportunity 🚨
The New Welsh Writing Awards are open for entries closing 31/1/25!
The Rheidol Prize - looking for new fiction and prose up to 5,000 words in length. Winning a £1000 development publishing contract with Parthian Books.
newwelshreview.com/award-page/t....
The New Welsh Writing Awards are open for entries closing 31/1/25!
The Rheidol Prize - looking for new fiction and prose up to 5,000 words in length. Winning a £1000 development publishing contract with Parthian Books.
newwelshreview.com/award-page/t....
The Rheidol Prize: For Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting - New Welsh Review
The Rheidol Prize: For Prose with Welsh Theme or Setting has championed new voices and the development of writers for the past ten years with thanks to the generous support from R. S. Powell. We are d...
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January 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🚨Don’t miss this #writingopportunity 🚨
The New Welsh Writing Awards are open for entries closing 31/1/25!
The Rheidol Prize - looking for new fiction and prose up to 5,000 words in length. Winning a £1000 development publishing contract with Parthian Books.
newwelshreview.com/award-page/t....
The New Welsh Writing Awards are open for entries closing 31/1/25!
The Rheidol Prize - looking for new fiction and prose up to 5,000 words in length. Winning a £1000 development publishing contract with Parthian Books.
newwelshreview.com/award-page/t....
I’m judging the Borzello Trust Poetry Prize with the wonderful Niall Griffiths! Get those entries in… deadline 31 January 2025!
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Good luck, we’re looking forward to reading your entries!
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Good luck, we’re looking forward to reading your entries!
January 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I’m judging the Borzello Trust Poetry Prize with the wonderful Niall Griffiths! Get those entries in… deadline 31 January 2025!
newwelshreview.com/new-welsh-wr...
Good luck, we’re looking forward to reading your entries!
newwelshreview.com/new-welsh-wr...
Good luck, we’re looking forward to reading your entries!
Hello! I was let in the back door, bedraggled from the rain last night... so I just thought I'd stop dripping puddles in the kitchen, staring at you all, and say hi. You look nice. I'll put the kettle on... take a proper look around.
November 6, 2023 at 12:19 PM
Hello! I was let in the back door, bedraggled from the rain last night... so I just thought I'd stop dripping puddles in the kitchen, staring at you all, and say hi. You look nice. I'll put the kettle on... take a proper look around.