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Rhys Owain Williams

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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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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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Thomas Gray
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”
― Thomas Gray, Selected Poems
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Jack Kerouac
“My witness is the empty sky.”
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Fay Weldon
“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.”
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Malika Booker
“A poet is always learning.”
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Allen Ginsberg
“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.”
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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
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The Crunch is a multimedia poetry magazine. Each issue features a single poet, who has three of their poems filmed and uploaded to our video archive, ...more
60280 The Readers — 1002 members — last activity Oct 30, 2024 05:36AM
The Readers is a podcast by Simon Savidge of Savidge Reads and Thomas Otto of Hogglestock, they like to talk about books... alot!
37633 Classic Horror Lovers — 1524 members — last activity Sep 12, 2025 07:27AM
Do you like your horror on the aged side? This group is for readers who love older/classic horror stories and books. Generally, horror published befor ...more
984725 Savidge Reads — 256 members — last activity Aug 30, 2020 10:31AM
A place to have a chat about all things Savidge Reads (video topics, what we are all reading, bookish bits and bobs etc) with Simon - if any of you wa ...more
1126904 #AdventureSociety — 47 members — last activity Nov 14, 2020 06:04AM
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