BOOKS

That Lone Ship (2018)
ISBN: 9781912109241

"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
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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 (Online)

Lost Cat | The Cardiff Review
Mother and Child | Poetry Wales
Haiku | Wales Haiku Journal
The Search Party | Unlatched Podcast #4
Gull | Atlanta Review
A Minute's Silence | Football Poets
We Weren't Interested in Girls | Football Poets
​58 Years | Football Poets
The Walk to Work | Wales Haiku Journal
The Pint that Follows | Wales Haiku Journal
Marking Out the Ground with String | Parthian Books Blog
Haiku | Wales Haiku Journal
​The First Time | New Welsh Review
Three Poems | The Gull
Three Poems | The Crunch
Ghazal | The Lampeter Review
Two Poems | Agenda

POETRY (pRINT)

Here's What Happens When You Enter a Black Hole | Field #18
Two Poems | Magma #85
Dim Siarad | Poetry Wales #58.3
Haiku | Frogpond #44.2
A New Year | Popshot #17
Magnetic | Lighthouse #9

Fiction

The Chimes of Graig Trewyddfa | New Gothic Review
Passengers | New Gothic Review
Give a Dog a Bone | The Lonely Crowd

Non-Fiction

Calling for the Good Old Days | Wales Arts Review
Twin Town 20th Anniversary Screening | Wales Arts Review

Anthologies / other

Byways: Poems and Stories on Foot (2024)
ISBN: 9781913665876
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An anthology of stories and poems exploring urban shortcuts, well-trodden meanders, ancient pathways, hillside and field paths. Includes the poem 'Desire Line'.

RRP: £12.00
Available from Arachne Press
Masculinity: An Anthology of Modern Voices (2024)
ISBN: 9781915760876 
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An anthology of  poems that emphasise that masculinity is not a monolithic concept, but a dynamic, evolving force that can be shaped by culture, society, and personal experiences. Includes the poems 'Practising Mindfulness in GTA V' and 'The Workout App Speaks'. All proceeds from the sale of this anthology will be donated to Beyond Equality.​

RRP: £12.99
Available from Broken Sleep Books
Voices / Lleisiau (2023)
ISBN: 9781399945769
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A collection of responses to contemporary Welsh artworks by seventeen Welsh writers. Includes the poem 'The Centre of the Earth Can Be Projected to the Closest Point on the Surface', written in response to Haf Weighton's artwork 'Growing on Green Lanes' with an accompanying Welsh translation by Manon Rhys. You can listen to that poem here. All proceeds from the sale of this anthology will be donated to Velindre Cancer Centre.

RRP: £24.99
Available from Nichola Hope
A470: Poems for the Road / Cerddi'r Ffordd (2022)
ISBN: 9781913665555
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A bilingual anthology of poems in Welsh and English celebrating the A470: a 186-mile road stretching across Wales from shore to shore, linking north to south. Includes the poem 'A Mountain We Climb', with an accompanying Welsh translation by Sian Northey. 

RRP: £9.99
Available from Arachne Press
Hit Points (2021)
ISBN: 9781913642648
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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: 9781912109562

"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: 9781909844889

"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
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