You may, recently, have seen me asking certain questions on social media: questions about ‘poets of Cardiff’ – what this phrase means to people, and which writers people think of when we use this phrase. That’s because I was asked, a short while ago, to curate poets and commission poems from them for a new project – Poetry in the Arcades – in which these new verses would be put on display in the classic old arcades of the city. In the end, after much thought, I decided to go with a definition of ‘Cardiff poet’ as someone who ‘voices … Continue reading Poetry in the Arcades