Awen Publications

Poets, thinkers, writers and people who care for the natural world will gather in Waterloo on Saturday, June 3, 2017 for a unique...

By Dawn Gorman It was a packed and dynamic evening last Thursday at Words & Ears, when Susan Utting and Rishi Dastidar took up the guest...

This is a poem continuing the theme of working through my illness, which has produced Surgery (Yew Tree Press, 2015), Left Field, and...

When Liz Watts suggested I ran an edition of Words & Ears within her ceramics installation Beached at Greenhill Cottage Gallery, I...

The stars are in our belly; the Milky Way our umbilicus. Is it a consolation that the stuff of which we’re made is star-stuff too? – That...

The next Frome Poetry Cafe on Monday 24th features two major names, both reading from their new publications: Whitbread-winning author...

by Morgan Blanks Recently I have been thinking about poetry; in particular, haiku, because a whole story can be told in just three lines....

by Gabriel Bradford Millar On Thursday 9 March @ Star Anise in Stroud a roomful of poetry aficionados were treated to a double book...

Bradford on Avon’s reading series, Words & Ears continues to offer a popular combination of open mic and strong guest poets, this month...

I am grateful to Anthony Nanson for inviting me to contribute a few lines on my poetry collection, Pilgrim Station, recently brought out...

On the 9th of March 2017, Lindsay Clarke read from his poetry collection A Dance With Hermes at the Chapel Arts Cafe in Bath. it was a...

“It’s quite short, but it’s enjoyable. I have never read a sequence of poems like this before, but I would certainly consider doing so in...

Jay  Ramsay, author of the poetry collection Places of Truth and editor for the anthology Soul of The Earth has an audio album of poetry...

Roselle Angwin is a contributor to the poetry anthology Soul of The Earth. Today we’re sharing a post previously published on her blog....

Soul Of The Earth is an anthology of Eco-spiritual poetry edited by Jay Ramsay and with an afterword by Anthony Nanson. A number of Awen...

Reviewing Tidal Shift, Helen Moore said “Throughout we experience the communications of a compassionate heart – sometimes burning with...

Written on William Blake’s birthday, 28 November, by Jay Ramsay. FOR BRENDAN COX The Metro, 24.11.16 We have nothing…the folded headline...

By Kirsty Hartsiotis Fittingly, this image is from a kylix, an ancient Greek wine cup, the kind used at Greek symposia, parties where...

By Jay Ramsay Lindsay has always been a poet in essence. His last collection, Stoker, which recalls his upbringing in Halifax, is now...

Jay Ramsay (Soul of the Earth) has brought out a poetry collection with Tayen Lane Publishing. Diamond Cutters names the tradition of...