Kathy Miles

Be great if some poetry friends could make one of these venues

My box of Beasts has arrived! If you’d like an early copy you can buy one direct from @BloodaxeBooks! Just scroll down their Beast page bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/be…

PREORDER (28.02.2025): Opening Line is a £3.99 poetry anthology built on the principle that access to the arts should not be a privilege. This anthology dismantles economic barriers that too often limit audiences from engaging with contemporary poetry. brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/o…

Call for entries! The international #Welsh #Poetry Competition – bit.ly/3Ith7pP is now open and accepting entries. 1st Prize - £500 | Judge @mjenkins1927 | Cash prizes, publication in anthology | @NationalPoetryDay @PoetryDayUK @ForwardPoetry @poetrymagazine @Carcanet

Tomorrow, I'll be reading from latest book Bog Witch at this really cosy community event in #Pontypridd. Come along from 7pm. Also includes an open mic! 🩵

@MatthewMCSmith Wow, Matthew, that's brilliant!

A poem for #WorldMentalHealthDay2024 ‘Sometimes, a Man Could Cry’ #writing #poetry #mentalhealth

Yay! 🎉 🥳 🎉 🎙️ It’s open mic this Sunday evening! Sharpen your reading skills, roadtest your work, listen to others’ word. Join us, wherever you are!! eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-bough-…

Three Writers from West Wales are putting their region on the map with three nominations for ‘Best of the Net’ this year. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Well done to @MqHovey (2 nominations this year) @Kathym974 @SandiferSmith @LitWales @poetrywales blackboughpoetry.com/award-nominati…

@blackboughpoems Wow! Thank you!

The Best of the Net nominations for the 'Silver Branch project' 2023-24. 🍾🍷✒️💎 Congratulations to the six writers - a poem from their special monthly features. One of the perks of this invite-only project is to be in strong contention for a nomination. blackboughpoetry.com/award-nominati…

So thrilled to get a great review of Vanishing Point in Orbis magazine! palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/envi…

Wow! Just look at this! I'm so honoured to be at @GlosHistFest with one of my favourite (current) people talking about two of my favourite (historical) people - #RichardIII and #CecilyNeville. I'm told there are a few tickets left. Grab them here. tinyurl.com/yspatrmr

@JennyMitchellGo Overwhelming but exciting; and very humbling. Poems that share hard or upsetting experiences, poems full of love or descriptive magic. You feel a sense of responsibility to treat the poems with respect, as people have worked so hard on them.

Have you ever judged a poetry competition? What are the advantages/disadvantages? All thoughts welcome. Many thanks. 🦋

@herdyshepherd1 An excellent programme, giving the views of both farmers and conservationists, and trying to find workable solutions.

Respect to the BBC for giving renowned scientist Brian May a platform for his findings on TB. My BBC documentary on guitar riffs in the 1970s and 80s will be out soon.

@helen_laycock @AlanParry83 Beautiful, Helen.

'FIFTEEN' was inspired by my first ride on a motorbike and would seem to fit the theme #PoemsAbout #Recklessness 🏍️ You will be pleased to hear that I choose safer modes of transport now, @AlanParry83! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

#Welsh Poetry Competition 2024 - Winners Announced! Congratulations to all and thanks to @Kathym974 our amazing judge! #poetry #Wales 1st Prize Once Upon A Time – Gill Learner 2nd Prize The Chariot – Theophilus Kwek 3rd Prize To Poison – Sue Davies buff.ly/3UMahmn

@parthianbooks Congratulations Carly and Si!

@helen_laycock @FrogmorePress Thanks, Helen!

@FrogmorePress @Kathym974 How fabulous! Congratulations, Kathy. 💖

Happy to announce the winner of the 38th Frogmore Poetry Prize: Kathy Miles @Kathym974 from West Wales, for her poem ‘After a Termination on Medical Grounds’. More here: frogmorepress.co.uk/uncategorized/…

@fiddesmark @TheFridayPoem This is brilliant, Mark.

Thank you @TheFridayPoem Please read 'Beige' here. "It's political...serious...and has reach, but it also manages to land gently."

@WEDossett Thanks! x

Vanishing Point by prize-winning poet Kathy Miles @Kathym974. A powerful collection dripping with grief, for loss of loved ones, losses associated with climate change, and the failures of modernity.

@WEDossett Thanks Wendy!

I cannot wait to read this poem. Congratulations @Kathym974