EditorialSeven years ago, Graham Isaac and Adam Sillman organised the first ever edition of The Crunch: a spoken word night hosted in Uplands, Swansea. Held on the second and third Thursdays of each month between December 2008 and October 2012, the night played host to everyone from poetry slam sluggers to Wales Book of the Year winners, with the occasional experimental theatre troupe thrown in for good measure.
Following an unintended three-year hiatus, The Crunch now finally returns in the form a multimedia poetry magazine, curated by original founder Adam Sillman, alongside Richard James Jones and Rhys Owain Williams. Just like the earlier incarnation, each edition of The Crunch will have a 'feature poet'. This poet will have three of their poems filmed and uploaded to The Crunch online video repository, and also join us for a 30 minute (or so) conversational podcast. In this primer edition – Issue 0 – we take the opportunity (for those who don't know us) to introduce ourselves. And for those of you who do – it's good to be back! The Crunch
October 2015 |
Featured PoetS
RICHARD JAMES JONES was born in Swansea, where he continues to live and work whilst also studying for a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at Bangor University.
He has been published in a number of British and international journals, including Poetry Wales, Magma and The Rialto. His first collection, Little Man, was published by Parthian in 2014. |
ADAM SILLMAN is a poet and podcaster from Townhill, Swansea. He was the co-founder and host of The Crunch spoken word night, which ran between December 2008 and October 2012 in Uplands, Swansea.
In 2015, Adam brought The Crunch back to life as a multimedia poetry magazine, comprising an online repository of videos and a monthly podcast, in which he reprises his role as host. He currently lives in Cockett with his wife, two cats and ever-growing whiskey collection. |
RHYS OWAIN WILLIAMS is a writer from Morriston, Swansea. His poetry has been published in various magazines and anthologies, and was recently featured in a permanent public art project at Morriston Hospital, curated by Art in Site.
Rhys was a runner-up in the WalesPENCymru New Voices Competition 2016, and was chosen as one of the Hay Festival’s Writers at Work in 2017. His first poetry collection, That Lone Ship, will be published by Parthian in 2018. |
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