Ieuan Published - Tribute from a Wooden Huut - thewiseowl.art Falcon Ed. Jan 2024

[FranktheFrank]

Published Poems and Competition Placings in WebDelSol's IBPC
by Ieuan Ap Hywel

A Virtuous Life
Published in the Hyra Brook Edition of Terence Culleton's Winter Newsletter: March 2024
I find this poem by the award-winning Welsh poet Ieuan ap Hywel beautiful in its mantra-like cycling and recycling of key Hindu precepts
regarding the goodness, the rightness, of both life and death, the experience of the soul in the afterlife, and the vital and continuing
connection between the soul in death and the world in which it has lived and in new ways continues to live according to the workings of
karma. Form and content are in perfect unity here. Terence Culleton.

Tribute From a Wooden Hut
Published by Open Arts Forum -Front Page 11th March 2024
https://openartsforum.com/tribute-from-a-wooden-hut/

Tribute From a Wooden Hut
Published by thewiseowl.art Flamingo Edition March 2024
https://www.thewiseowl.art/ieuan-ap-hywei

In Love With a Woman in her Later Years
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 17th January 2024
https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2024/0 ... -ap-hywel/
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor’s Note: This poem’s emphasis on reality makes the love that permeates the narrative all the more precious.

Christmas in Wales (1953)
Published by thewiseowl.art Falcon Edition January 2024
Editor: Rachna Singh
https://www.thewiseowl.art/ieuan-ap-hywel

Cycling Across t' Bridge
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 1st April 2022
https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2022/0 ... -ap-hywel/
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor’s Note: This pantoum sounds so beautiful in the mouth that it’s quite easy to miss
the wistful emotional thread that winds through the stanzas.

Died Last Fall
by Ieuan ap Hywel
IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for March 2022
Honorable Mention
Judged by Terence Culleton

Cycling Across t' Bridge
1st Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for November 2021
Representing The Writer’s Block - http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2021/11
Judge's comments:
A key to the sureness with which this poem realizes the musical structure of the pantoum form is the fact that there is only one main verb in the entire piece. The poet cycles a single remembered image through carefully crafted quatrains in such a way that, with each return of any given detail of the scene, there is not just a recognition, but a re-realization. The language is always fresh and musical, filled with assonantal and consonantal textures, and it’s often surprisingly inventive, as in the second quatrain’s reference to “her boneshaker bike.” Every quatrain of this poem resonates with both loss and recovery. The charged moment is fixed in the past but brought back into the present again through the offices of the poetic imagination. The merging of past and present, memory and desire, loss and recoupment is the exact remit of the lyric mode and the key to its hypnotic power. I could read this one again and again—and will. --Terence Culleton

Time Portal at Fenchurch St. Station
1st Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for August 2021
Representing The Writer’s Block - http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2021/08
Judge's comments:
Having lived in London for 20 years, I admit this poem struck me on a personal level, evoking another time in my, as well as the author's, life. Those moments in our past when everything that was or is verges on change. Well constructed and paced, it conjures the senses of sight and sound while steering clear of being overly emotional. --Bruce McRae

WAKEUP CALL
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 12 August 2021 - https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2021/0 ... -ap-hywel/
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor's comments:
"The uncertain punctuation, enjambment, and broken words contribute to an atmosphere of confusion in this poem, and it isn’t until the last two lines that the truth is understood."

RETIREMENT
Published by Haiku Universe’s Daily haiku and micro poem competition 20th July 2021
https://haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-leuan-ap-hywel/

DAUNTED
2nd Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for March 2019
Representing The Writer’s Block - http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2019/3
Judge's comments:
"Not an easy poem to read, the subject matter, the sordid details of death and attendant complications that twist grief into anger—the callous coroner, the missing ring, the unlikely doctor, the drive home, gripping the steering wheel in the driving rain. Then the final stanza redeems it all. It’s life, it’s in the past, it can be released. --Ruth Bavetta"

WAITING FOR A BUS AT ARMARNATH TEMPLE
3rd Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for April 2018
Representing The Writer’s Block -http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/waiting ... ath-temple
Judge's comments:
"A casual slice of Indian life (A yogi, brown as betel/ juice, stands next to me, near naked save/ for an umbrella, people bow to the divine in him.) as the poet lingers, sampling the street life (A yogi, brown as betel/ juice, stands next to me, near naked save/ for an umbrella, people bow to the divine in him.) waiting near the temple for a friend. --R.T. Castleberry

FROSTED GARDEN
Published by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily 1st September 2017
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor's note:
"Delicate imagery introduces two kinds of changing seasons in this poem (apt for the first day o September).

FROSTED GARDEN
1st Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for June 2017
Representing The Writer’s Block - http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/frosted-garden
Judge's comments:
"An anomaly in American life and poetry--a sweetly gentle lyric of a married couple settling into the loving rituals of aging. --R.T. Castleberry"

DE AARDAPPELETERS (1885)
Published by Autumn Sky Daily Poetry 1st March 2017
Editor: Christine Klocek-Lim
Editor's note:
"This ekphrastic poems carefully conveys not just the painted scene, but the intent behind the picture. Van Gogh’s fascination with this particular painting is nearly as fascinating as the work itself.

THE POTATO EATERS (1885)
1st Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s Monthly Competition for May 2016
Representing The Writer’s Block
Judge's comments:
"A finely-wrought ekphrastic poem that is also a telling commentary on Van Gogh’s evolution as an artist. The poem is wonderfully observant of what is in the painting and what is not. Precise observation evokes all the senses: the smell of lye, the bird that doesn’t sing because he doesn’t exist, the vapour rising from a bowl of aardappelen, the raffia woven chair seats, rough-spun clothes, the eight rafters, the missing Bible. --Joan Colby"

TROUSERED WOMEN
3rd Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for June 2016
Representing The Writer’s Block
Judge's comments:
"The brutality of a miner’s vanished way of life is carefully detailed. “Candle set in cap” “soaks in a zinc bath in front of a coal fire” “eating faggots with mash and peas” “Ieuan who thought all religion a sin” The scene is rivetingly real. --Joan Colby"

URBAN CROWS
3rd Place IBPC Web Del Sol’s monthly competition for November 2015
Representing The Writer’s Block
Judge's comments:
"This poem travels a great distance in its catalogue about city crows. It begins playfully describing them that ‘rock and loll’ in tree tops. Sweeping in vision, it moves through several landscapes in rhythms and images that capture their nonchalant takeover. The list of foods they eat is carefully chosen and described with verve creating a tension that leads to the growing irony and import as is the juxtaposition of kiddie’s playground to the apocalypse. The casual tone depicting the end of humanity at the end is chilling." --Barbara Siegel Carlson

[BobBradshaw]

Good to see this poem continue to be rewarded, and deservingly so.

[FranktheFrank]

Thank you Bob, I feel a little embarrassed to keep posting them. There been a flood of publications lately,
one more to come in April and another repeat of 'In Love With a Woman in her Later Years' with a photograph.

But I want to keep track of my published works in ace I forget and if anyone asks me,
'Are you a poet and what have you published?'

I'm not so active at the moment and shun arguments and confrontations like an ice dancer
on a frozen lake when a thaw sets in. I'm just not myself. I do feel guilty, I just can't engage.