Publications

BOOKS

That Lone Ship (2018)
ISBN: 978-1912109241

"The decks of That Lone Ship fizz with the imagery of a changing seaside town. Its souls are chronicled with pathos and tenderness."
– Paul Henry

“Rhys Owain Williams proves himself a skilled navigator, charting a course through seas both calm and rough, familiar and strange. By turns moving, poignant, funny and undeniably local, these poems deal with place and people, love and friendship: Swansea town and its familial inhabitants in all their ugly (lovely) glory. That Lone Ship, whether arriving or departing, is one you’ll swim out to; one you won’t want to miss."
– Emily Blewitt

"Wide-ranging and intelligent, heartfelt and elegant – Rhys Owain Williams explores loss, love and a Swansea boyhood in poems that surprise and amaze."
– Joe Dunthorne

RRP: £8.00
Available from Parthian Books | Amazon | Blackwell's | Bookshop | Hive | Scottish Poetry Library | Shakespeare & Co. | Waterstones | WHSmith | Wordery

SELECTED Magazines / WEBSITES / Podcasts

poeTRY

FICTION

2016 | Give a Dog a Bone | The Lonely Crowd
2014 | The Office Block | A Flock of Shadows

Non-Fiction

Anthologies / other

Hit Points (2021)
ISBN: 978-1-913642-64-8

An anthology of video game poetry, edited by Aaron Kent and Matthew Haigh. Includes the poem 'Tetris Syndrome'.

RRP: £10.99
Available from Broken Sleep Books

The Haiku Calendar 2021

"If you were only interested in excellent haiku from this choice of international authors, this would be an exotic addition to your bookshelves, even when the years have passed beyond this one."
– Lynx – A Journal for Linking Poets

RRP: £12.00
Available from Snapshot Press

Anthology of Young Welsh Poets (2020)
ISBN: 9789606381454

"Welsh poets are often figures of idiosyncratic, extraordinary brilliance, one-offs who seem to come out of nothing because they have often developed away from everywhere...each new Welsh poet gives the world something that absolutely no one else could."
– Jonathan Edwards (Foreword)

RRP: $12.00
Available from YoungPoets.eu

Cheval 10: The Terry Hetherington Award Anthology (2017)
ISBN: 978-1912109562

"A fitting tribute to the memory of radical Welsh poet Terry Hetherington...gives young writers in Wales a wonderful opportunity for recognition."
– Mike Jenkins

RRP: £7.99
Available from Parthian Books

The Haiku Calendar 2016

"A new departure in the presentation of haiku and a very imaginative one...this calendar makes a lovely present."
– Blithe Spirit: Journal of The British Haiku Society

RRP: £10.00
Available from Snapshot Press

A Flock of Shadows (2014)
ISBN: 978-1909844889

"Rhys Owain Williams' 'The Office Block’ is a drift through somnambulant days and quiet night hours plagued by insomnia and the steady oppressive torment of the watchful building opposite."
– Claire Houghez and Rebecca Parfitt (Foreword)

RRP: £7.99
Available from Parthian Books

Blood and Thunder, Rough and Tumble (2012)

A history of the Sandfields area of Swansea, published by the Sandfields Community Association. Includes the poem 'Vetch Field Elegy'.

RRP: £10
Available from The Sandfields Community Association

Another Country (2011)
ISBN: 9781848513068

"This is an important contribution, not only to Welsh literature in English but also to all writing of haiku and its related forms in the English language."
– Paul Griffiths, Shakkei – The Journal of the Japanese Garden Society

RRP: £9.99
Available from Gwales.com