We’ve been treated to a year full of delightful and heart-wrenching collections from all across Wales, and naming our choices has been particularly tough for our contributors.  That said, we take great pleasure in revealing the best Welsh poetry releases of 2022 

Written in collaboration with poets (Phil Cope, Viviana Fiorentino, Csilla Toldy and Glen Wilson), Angela Graham’s Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere is an innovative collection that Graham herself states ‘moves from war, to migration, to the alienation imposed by illness (a kind of expulsion from the sanctuary of Eden), to the numinosity of the natural world, to the pandemic, and ends with an assertion that sanctuary is something we can be.’

Read Angela Graham’s introduction to Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere here.

This collection, published by Welsh company Seren Books ,was developed with funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.