How to Make a Paper Grenade is the follow-up pamphlet to Glyn Edwards’ recent full collection Obit (Seren, 2023) which was voted People’s Choice at the Wales Book of the Year Awards in 2024. This new pamphlet allows this inventive poet to further investigate his interests in ecology and his commitment to writing as a form of activism via his poetry, as well as to further his focus on powerful ways to deliver meaning via the creative use of form. How to Make a Paper Grenade pulls very few punches and is an exciting step on Glyn’s poetry journey.
 
Glyn Edwards has been described as one of ‘Wales’ most exciting young poets. He is a former winner of Terry Hetherington Award for Welsh young writers, and remains a trustee of the prize.
 
His collection Vertebrae, published by The Lonely Press, was both a Wales Arts Review and Poetry Wales ‘Book of the Year’, and was recommended in the Irish Times. His poetry has been translated into Greek as part of a European Literature Project, featured in poetry installations in Dublin and Paris, performed as libretto with a string orchestra in Manchester, and been published widely in journals and anthologies, from Wales Arts Review, to The Guardian, to VERVE Poetry Press’ Eighty Four. He has been Poet in Residence at the Chester Literature Festival, and the Dylan Thomas Boathouse, has delivered workshops for Gladfest and the Conwy Libraries Trust, and has read at festivals and poetry events across North Wales and North West England.
 
Glyn is a PhD researcher in ecopoetry at Bangor University, considering the role of poetry as activism in the wake of the Anthropocene. He co-edits Modron, a journal for environmental writing, and the Wild Words feature for North Wales Wildlife Trust. He is a former winner of Wales’ Teacher of the Year, and has created educational resources for the Welsh Government, the WJEC and Poetry Wales. He works as a teacher in North Wales.
 
His most recent full collection is Obit (Seren, 2023) was voted People’s Choice at the Wales Book of the Year Awards in 2024.