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Rhys Owain Williams is a writer from Swansea, Wales. His work has been published in magazines and anthologies, performed at festivals and read on national television. Through his writing, he has also responded to various artistic commissions, with clients including Art in Site, Swansea University, Nationwide Building Society and NHS Wales. Rhys's poetry has been translated into Welsh, Greek and Latvian, and his first poetry collection, That Lone Ship , was published by Parthian in 2018. He edits The Crunch multimedia poetry magazine, and is a former Hay Festival Writer at Work. ...more

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	A470: Poems for the Road / Cerddi'r Ffordd by Sian Northey (Editor), Ness Owen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Siôn Aled (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Flock of Shadows: New Gothic Fiction by Claire Houguez (Editor), Rebecca Parfitt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rhys Owain Williams (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Lone Ship 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales by Nigel Jenkins (Editor), Ken Jones (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lynne Rees (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hit Points: An Anthology of Video Game Poetry [Green Edition] by Matthew Haigh (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aaron Kent (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rhys Owain Williams (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Gothic Review Issue III by Ian McMahon (Editor), Catherine Wilson Garry (Goodreads Author), Melissa Elborn 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Cheval 10: The Terry Hetherington Award Anthology 2017 by Rose Widlake, Glyn Edwards (Editor), Jonathan Edwards (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I've got poems included in two new anthologies that are both now available to pre-order, if you fancy buying a gift for your future self.

Masculinity: An Anthology of Modern Voices is published by Broken Sleep Books on 31st January. There are two new poems of mine in it – one about practising mindfulness while playing GTA V, and another about the AI of a workout app becoming sentient. Read more of this blog post »

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The Wrong Side of the Looking Glass

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Folding Rock 001: Roots: New Writing from Wales and Beyond

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Rhys’s Quotes

“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”
― Thomas Gray, Selected Poems

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“My witness is the empty sky.”
― Jack Kerouac

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“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.”
― Fay Weldon

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“A poet is always learning.”
― Malika Booker

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“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”
― Allen Ginsberg

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