The Swansea Poet’s Gallery
Poetry Into Light started the Swansea Poet’s Gallery in 2024! Here we deliver some of Swansea’s finest established, emerging and new poets, through audio, film or written text to share and celebrate talent. If you’d like to be added to this gallery email us here with 2 poems, your photo and writers bio.
June 2026
Coming soon: Gavin Byron Harris - The Everyday Poet
Previously Featured Poets
Mark Lyndon
Listen here Mark Lyndon’s ‘Beguilling Gull…’
Bio
Mark Lyndon, is a retired teacher from Swansea. He’s been a performance poet/singer at myriad venues across South Wales and beyond for many years. He runs 'Market Malarkey', a monthly open-mic event at Uplands Market in Swansea and organises 'A Turn for the Verse,' a band of bards that travels to perform informally at beautiful locations within Wales.
Mark has hosted at Talisman Poetry in Swansea, as well as at Brown's in Laugharne, and has been guest poet on several occasions. Being an archetypal Welshman, Mark has also penned poesy in Welsh and is rather partial to a song. He is a keen chorister with the highly-acclaimed Dunvant Male Choir.
Books published: Once More Unto the Beach, Dear Friends, Once More and A Bard's Eye View.
Mark’s had one hundred poems published in The Evening Post, numerous magazines and the following anthologies: Ten Swansea Writers (Talisman), In the Midst. A Covid Anthology (2020), The River Widens Anthology (Merrimac Massachusetts).
Rebecca Lowe: Rebecca’s visceral audio of her enchanting poem ‘Celebration’
Bio
Rebecca Lowe is based in Swansea, UK. She was the 2020 Bread and Roses Spoken Word Award Winner. Her work has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3. She has three published collections, Blood and Water (The Seventh Quarry Press, 2020), Our Father Eclipse (Culture Matters, 2021) and Grandmasaurus: a book of verse for children. She recently published Write Mindfully, a book for aspiring writers and is currently editing Peaceweavers, a Culture Matters anthology of radical peace activists. Rebecca is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet and recently read for the Swansea and District Writers Circle. She runs writing workshops and the Swansea Talisman Spoken Word Nights. She is a trained editor and journalist.