Rae Howells | |
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Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Welsh |
Genre | Poetry |
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Rae Howells is a Welsh writer. Her debut poetry collection The language of bees was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award in 2023. [1]
In 2017, Howells' poem 'Airlings' won the Welsh Poetry Competition. [2] This win was followed by another prize the next year, when 'The Winter-King' took first place in The Rialto's Nature Poetry Competition. [3] Both of these poems would eventually appear in Howells' first full collection The language of bees, published by Parthian Books in April 2022. [4] In May 2023, The language of bees was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award, with the shortlisting announced on BBC Radio Wales. [5]
Howells also regularly works in collaboration with other writers and artists. Prior to her first full collection, she published Bloom & Bones: a collaborative poetry pamphlet with fellow Swansea poet Jean James. Presented as a 'poetry conversation through colour' and inspired by The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair, the pamphlet contained twenty poems responding to ten colours: white, yellow, orange, pink, red, purple, blue, green, brown and black. [6] The pamphlet was published by Hedgehog Press, and launched at The Swansea Fringe festival on 24 October 2021. [7] Later that year, Howells was selected as one of five Welsh women artists to take part in Ù Ơ: a virtual artistic residency linking artists from Wales and Vietnam. [8]
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