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Parthian poets Mari Ellis Dunning and Rhys Owain Williams will be reading from their debut poetry collections in Aberystwyth Art Centre Book Shop on December 6th at 7pm. Can you think of a better stocking filler than a signed poetry book?

In pre-Christian times, the Gaelic festival of Samhain, celebrating the end of harvest and beginning of Winter would have taken place across Wales in the form of Calan Gaeaf. This would happen about midway between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice, on a date that we now recognise as Halloween...

A Raid Over Berlin becomes an overnight bestseller after last night's BBC The One Show Feature and flies to Amazon No 1!‘I could see that still no one had been able to get out from the cockpit. It must have been at this moment that I thought I was going to die because I became remarkably calm’.Buy A Raid Over Berlin from our online store Trapped inside a burning Lancaster bomber, 20,000 feet above Berlin, airman John Martin consigned himself to his fate and turned his thoughts to his fiancée back home. In a miraculous turn of events, however, the twenty-one...

Mari Ellis Dunning takes a look at why contemporary poetry is not in a rotten state, as suggested by novelist Rose Tremain last week.

The Welsh Joint Education Committee (WJEC) recently chose 15 poems from The Library of Wales anthology, Poetry: 1900 - 2000 for the 2020 GCSE in English Literature component on Welsh Writing in English. This exciting news was shared on Swansea University website where Teachers can also find resources on each of the poems.