Soozerama

‘This book is everything that a memoir should be: gripping, informative, moving, hilarious, a fascinating doorway into the fun and frozen wastes of being someone else, a glimpse into a life well and vividly lived. Laceratingly intelligent, fearlessly self analytical, it is, in part, a sequence of joyous, if hard-won, awakenings, into rugby, politics, literature, addiction, adoption, music, Welshness, love of several kinds. All praise.’ Niall Griffiths

In his debut memoir, @benwildsmith.bsky.social offers an adoptee’s take on society as he struggles to carve out a space within it.

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A few days late, perhaps, for a poem about love. But since when has love ever arrived on time? This little ditty comes from Breakfast with the Scavengers, my debut collection, edited by @soozerama.bsky.social and published by @parthianbooks.bsky.social last autumn. 🧟‍♂️

It is lovely to see that Unspeakable Beauty by Georgia Carys Williams has been picked a Books Council of Wales Book of the Month for February! (Parthian Books)

'A truly impressive achievement from a rising star of Welsh literature.' – Gosia Buzzanca, Buzz Magazine

New Welsh Review 139: Journeys This will be released on February 1st 2026.Pre-orders are charged at time of order and the book will be posted to you as soon as it becomes available. UK postage is 99 pence per order.   Edited by Sus...

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White Rabbits! Hello February, Hello All! Our new issue is out this month, order here or from your favourite bookshop... or through Exact Editions.

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

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.

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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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...

Out Now: New Welsh Review #138

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Edited by yours truly with a wonderful new logo and magazine design by Olwen Fowler.

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…

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.

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!

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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📚 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, (...)

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...

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

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. 🌸

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.

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...

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.

#poetry competition open to all #Erasurepoetry #ecopoetry Judged by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
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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...

‘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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This Common Uncommon When a local common is threatened with development, one poet explores its secrets, discovering extraordinary natural treasures and wonderful people fighting to defend them. Can they save this uncommon...

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‘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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Photo of Natalie in black and white spotted dress and long scarf, reading aloud from her poetry book

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 💫

A banner image displaying upcoming book releases by Parthian. Top row (left to right) Boundary Waters, This Rooms is Impossible To Eat, Behind the Scenes: The Dramatic Lives of Philip Burton, Measuring the Distance, The Plankton Collector, Earwitness: A Search for Sonic Understanding in Stories. Bottom row (left to right) The Transplantable Roots of Catharine Huws Nagashima: Encounters with the Welsh in Japan, Bushmeat, Breaking A Mare, Slatehead, Street-fighting and Other Past Times.

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.
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Tomorrow night at 7:30pm with @natholborow.bsky.social ✨

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FEATURE VIDEO: a Poem and Interview with Natalie Ann Holborow Produced by Taz Rahman

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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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

Another 'reading in a hammock amongst trees' pic of this fabulous little novella.

Author photo

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.

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#WomenInTranslation

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.

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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.

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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!