Poetry, short fiction, novel

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‘It takes a real poet to make those of us jaded by Christmas re-imagine the season. Angela Graham performs the feat of translating the festival into an urgent challenge, fraught with our contemporary problems and yet full of joy.’ Gwyneth Lewis, inaugural National Poet of Wales.

‘a wonderful gathering of poems … such a lightness of touch with the old tropes, so much music and energetic imagination at work, so many new notes sounded. Not a line is predictable or a thought expected …’ Damian Smyth, poet and Head of Literature and Drama, Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

‘Read Star: Poems for the Christmas Season every year to remember the deeper values beyond the commercialism …’ Zoe Brigley, poet and editor of Poetry Wales.

32 poems, with 15 illustrations (copyright Martin Erspamer), from Culture And Democracy Press, 2024. Chosen by The Books Council of Wales as Book of the Month December 2024.

Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere from Seren Books 2022.

‘ full of moving, serious poems and individual voices. This too is sanctuary.‘ George Szirtes

‘In this wonderful collaborative collection there is work that variously provokes, soothes, challenges and affirms. Together, the poems provide a meditation on the meaning of ‘sanctuary’ at a time when the word’s relevance to our lives feels increasingly urgent. A vital and illuminating publication.’ Moyra Donaldson

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A City Burning my collection of 26 short stories was completed with the support of a Writer’s Bursary from Literature Wales. Set in Northern Ireland, Wales and Italy, it was published in  2020 by Seren Books.

The collection was longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2021 ‘the only national literary award to recognise excellence in a published, single-authored short story collection.’

PRAISE for A City Burning here

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Prizes and Awards

  • I won the Poetry Prize in the inaugural Linen Hall Ulster-Scots Writing Competition 2021.
  • In November 2022 I was awarded a Life Fellowship by the Institute of Welsh Affairs. Read More.
  • A SIAP Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland helped to develop my novel-in-progress, Thorn about the politics of language (Irish and Ulster-Scots in Northern Ireland).
  • The Bridgend Writers Circle Award & Aber Valley Arts Award for short stories
  • Shortlisted in Rhys Davies Award & Write By The Sea Award
  • Pushcart-nominated by Crannog

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