Poetry Wales 60.3 Spring 2025 | The 60th Anniversary Issue

nawr issue twelve: DEFFRO/AWAKEN

Beyond/Tu Hwnt: Anthology of Welsh D/deaf and Disabled Writers

THE PROPEL ANTHOLOGY: 2022–2024

He, She, They, Us: Queer Poems

Caitlin Tina Jones is a working-class autistic poet from Hengoed, South Wales. She is currently undertaking a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing at Cardiff University. Her poems have featured in publications including Propel and Lucent Dreaming, among others, and have been recognised in competitions by Ilkley Literature Festival and Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Jones has written poetry reviews for the Institute of Welsh Affairs. Her work is soon to be anthologised in the Anthology of Welsh Disabled Writers.

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Caitlin Tina Jones is a working-class autistic poet from Hengoed, South Wales. She is currently undertaking a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing at Cardiff University. Her poems have featured in publications including Propel and Lucent Dreaming, among others, and have been recognised in competitions by Ilkley Literature Festival and Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Her first poetry review was recently commissioned by the Institute for Welsh Affairs. Her poems are soon to be anthologised in the Anthology of Welsh Disabled Writers (Lucent Dreaming) and HE, SHE, THEY, US: Queer Poems (Pan Macmillan). She was selected by Literature Wales for their inaugural Rewriting the Protagonist course, which centred experienced disabled Welsh writers.

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An interview with Poetry Wales staff writer Ashley Thompson about the process of writing poetry

Poetry Wales Interview: How Caitlin Tina Jones Writes a Poem

Two works, Heavensent in Spurred Boots and Better Late Than Never, were exhibited in Dyddiau Du's first public exhibition: Neighbourhood

Dyddiau Du is a queer, neurodivergent-led community library & art/lit space in Cardiff City Centre

Dyddiau Du exhibition feature

Selected by Literature Wales as one of ten disabled Welsh writers to participate in a course and develop work, led by world-renowned dramaturg Kaite O'Reilly

Literature Wales course selection

Winner of the Poetry as (Optimistic) Prophecy Challenge on The Poetry Society's Young Poets Network

Talk from a Butch in a future/past bowling alley

A review commissioned by the Institute of Welsh Affairs, reviewing Nigel Jenkins's posthumous poetry collection, Wild Cherry: Selected Poems.

Wild Cherry: Selected Poems review

Selected by editor Charlie Castelletti to appear in HE, SHE, THEY, US: Queer Poems, a hardback poetry anthology highlighting historical and current queer poets.

YOU DIDN'T GO TO PROM WITH ME

A review commissioned by the Institute of Welsh Affairs, reviewing Mike Jenkins' poetry collection, Igh Sheriff o Merthyr, pre-release.

IGH SHERIFF O MERTHYR review

"Do you sometimes see yourself in pictures and wonder
How you managed to stay alive, so unknowing
Of all the mangled eaves hushed over you"

Propel Issue 5, selected by guest editor Alycia Pirmohamed

Impala

"i am there with you. i am not prude 
enough to exclude the details: that 
i have conjured the white noise you'd
make between my legs"

Selected for HORNS Issue 3

when i imagine you in the shower

Highly commended for the Cúirt New Writing Prize, selected by Seán Hewitt

"There are sobbing hours I seek sterility
From vicious cycles, to rake the land of fruits"

Selected for Lucent Dreaming Issue 12

An Ode to the Scarecrow

"i spent five hours thinking / about coming here
and god / is this a holy ground"

Selected for Issue 4: Spectrum of Powders Press

sensory overload / midnight roller rink

"i love like a father does. a distant bone
the right kind of creature will slobber over"

Selected for Issue 4: Spectrum of Powders Press

mothering father thing

"I left the sun for the water, feeling my sandy skin 
Sizzling, an ancient intermediary, hot air shaped me 
As my mother watched from the poolside, blow tube
Hung limp, half out her mouth."

Longlisted, Young Poets Network's Talking Glass Challenge

6 Ann Ealer Close

"The matinée’s inferno and the
Hydraulic applause it rains – O, to be subdued!"

3rd Prize, 18-25 category

Caitlin Tina Jones

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Selected work

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