Below are some of my favourite links. For a longer list including links to literature-related blogs, see this list on my blog, The Midnight Heart.| Academi | http://www.academi.org/ |
| The Academi is the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Authors. The Academi runs events, courses, competitions, including the Cardiff International Poetry Competition, with the support of Cardiff Council and offering a First Prize of £5000, conferences, tours by authors, lectures, international exchanges, events for schools, readings, literary performances and festivals. Academi is also responsible for the National Poet of Wales project. | |
| Agenda Magazine | http://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/ |
Agenda is one of the best known and most highly respected poetry journals in the world, having been founded in 1959 by Ezra Pound and William Cookson. It is now edited by Patricia McCarthy, who co-edited the magazine with William Cookson for four years until his death in January 2003. |
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| Amateur Enterprises | http://www.amateur.org.uk/ |
| "For a quarter of a century, the folks at Amateur have been quietly engaged in the exploration and mapping of a territory which can be described both by what it is not: ("not science, not philosophy, not art, not literature") - and by what it is: (here the word 'weird' comes to mind, and 'preposterous'). " | |
| Anais Nin Website | http://www.anaisnin.com |
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| Bloodaxe Books | http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ |
| Bloodaxe Books is publishing my first collection, The Secret. It is an independent literary publishing house, founded in Newcastle in 1978 by Neil Astley joined in 1982 by chairman Simon Thirsk. | |
| Bronte Parsonage Museum | http://www.bronte.org.uk/ |
| This is the website of the Brontë Parsonage Museum and Brontë Society. The site has information about the lives and novels of the Brontë Family and the Brontë Parsonage Museum. | |
| English Association | http://www.le.ac.uk/engassoc/ |
| The English Association is the oldest established association in the United Kingdom for all those interested in English at all levels, from primary to higher education. | |
| Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives | http://www.routledge-ny.com/books/Femini... |
This is a volume of essays tedited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoe Brigley Thompson. |
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| Frida Kahlo | http://www.fridakahlo.it/ |
| A website about the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. | |
| Gists and Piths | http://gistsandpiths.blogspot.com/ |
| Gists and Piths is a great blog that discusses and publishes contemporary poetry. They include book reviews, poetry news, original poetry, manifestoes, articles etc. |
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| Gwyneth Lewis | http://www.gwynethlewis.com/ |
| Poet Gwyneth Lewis was born in 1959 in Cardiff, Wales. She attended a bilingual school in Pontypridd and studied English at Cambridge University. She studied at Harvard and Columbia, was a Harkness Fellow and worked as a freelance journalist in New York. She returned to Britain and worked in television. In 2001 she was awarded a £75,000 grant by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) to carry out research and to sail to ports that are linked historically with the inhabitants of her native city, Cardiff. |
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| Horizon | http://www.saltpublishing.com/horizon/in... |
| Horizon is an online literary magazine from Salt edited by Jane Holland. Very interesting read! |
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| Lila Downs | http://www.liladowns.com/ |
| This is the website of the Mexican-US singer Lila Downs who has links to the Mexican city of Oaxaca. | |
| Mslexia | http://www.mslexia.co.uk/ |
| Mslexia is a quarterly magazine for women who write, which I have found really useful and supportive. It features a substantial section of poetry and prose by published and unpublished authors, selected and introduced by a Mystery Guest Editor. | |
| Na Bolom | http://www.nabolom.org/index_en.html |
| Na Bolom is a cultural centre in San Cristobal. It is is a Mexican based non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1951 by the Danish Archaeologist and explorer Frans Blom and the Swiss conservationist and photographer Gertrude Duby. |
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| Nine Arches Press | http://www.ninearchespress.com/index.htm... |
| NINE ARCHES PRESS emerged from an awareness of our local literary landscape, a conviction that the West Midlands had a rich natural resource of innovative, contemporary poets who quite rightly deserved a platform through publication. See this website for details of their magazine, Under the Radar, and other publications. |
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| Pan's Labyrinth | http://www.panslabyrinth.com/ |
| This is a beautiful website for Mexican director, Guillermo del Toro's brilliant film, Pan's Labyrinth. | |
| Poetry Book Society | http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/ |
| Founded by T S Eliot in 1953, the Poetry Book Society (PBS) is an organisation devoted to developing and maintaining a readership for poetry in the U.K. The PBS offers the best new contemporary poetry to its members. |
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| Pascale Petit | http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk/ |
Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and lives in London. In 2004 the Poetry Book Society and Arts Council named her as one of the Next Generation Poets. She has published three full-length poetry collections. Her last two, The Zoo Father (Seren, 2001) and The Huntress (Seren, 2005), were both shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and were both Books of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement. |
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| Polar Bear | http://www.polarbearmusic.com/ |
| This is a great website for the band, Polar Bear. | |
| Salt Books | http://www.saltpublishing.com/ |
| This is the website and bookshop of the excellent press, Salt. They have an excellent list of poets including Deborah Miranda, Jane Holland, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Luke Kennard and Andy Brown. | |
| Seren Press | http://www.poetrywales.co.uk/ |
| Seren is an independent literary publisher, specialising in English-language writing from Wales. Seren have been very supportive of my poetry through their magazine Poetry Wales and the anthology, Seren Selections. | |
| Stride Magazine | http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/ |
| Stride Magazine is edited by Rupert Loydell. | |
| The New Welsh Review | http://www.newwelshreview.com/ |
| New Welsh Review brings you the very best new writing from Wales. Vibrant, engaging and unashamedly intelligent, each quarterly issue features writing talent from the literary heavyweights to rising new stars. | |
