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Some contemporary scientists give the impression (whether deliberately or not) that the gap between what is known and what is yet to be discovered about life and the universe is too small to accommodate the existence of a deity. And yet, that gap remains...

My poems were still in the bottom drawer of my desk, and the very idea of performing them was challenging, when I first met Jay, around 30 years ago. Like many other poets before and after me, I got to experience Jay’s extraordinary kindness and

The last time I saw Jay was at the launch of A Dance with Hermes in the Black Book Cafe and I remember how astonishingly well he looked despite the various ordeals of both illness and treatment he had so recently undergone. It felt characteristic of...

The title of the collection is Out of Time, which seems poignant now that I know that he ran out of time on 30 December 2018, just over ten years later. On the dedication page are several quotes, all of which now seem prescient...

On Wednesday 5 December Awen was delighted to host the launch in Stroud at the ever-wonderful Black Book Café of two of our newest books....

By Kevan Manwaring (Lughnasadh 2018) Silver Branch: Bardic Poems and Letters to a Young Bard is published on 19 August 2018. It will be...

Jay Ramsay has made a short film about his experience of the cancer journey, including some of the poetry it has inspired. He was due to...

by Jay Ramsay The real story, which is surely the environment now, is being masked by a puppet show diverting our attention from what...

by Kirsty Hartsiotis When I first saw the cover image for Charlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoils, that’s exactly what I thought we had....

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...

My name is Morgan Blanks and I have recently become an intern for Awen, for whom I will be managing a project involving the authors...

It was a true delight to participate in the event at the Chapel Arts Cafe in Bath on the evening of 10th March. The cafe, which provides...

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

By Anthony Nanson It was in the course of a hair-raising and not entirely successful hike along the coast of the Gower Peninsula in...

A guest post from Alistair McNaught In his review (for Vector) of the The Water Knife by Paul Bacigalupi, Anthony Nanson expressed the...

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

By Richard Selby The beginning was one afternoon, five years ago, I forget exactly what I was doing, it would be good to say I was...

“It’s 7 years since our friend Mary Palmer left us. She died from cancer a day after my birthday in 2009. We were both born in that most...

In the scary aftermath of the vote to leave the EU, some of the wiser souls I know have voiced the importance of standing together, of...