Mab Jones

Mab Jones is a poet, writer, and presenter based in Wales. She has two poetry collections Poor Queen (Burning Eye Books, 2014) and take your experience and peel it (Indigo Dreams, 2015).[1][2]

She is the founder and editor of Black Rabbit Press.[3] She has also worked as a presenter for BBC Radio 4, especially on programs related to Welsh themes and content.[4][5][6]

She has won a number of awards, including the John Tripp Spoken Poetry Audience Prize,[7] the Aurora Poetry Competition,[8] the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize,[9] and the Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival Grand Jury Prize.[10] She has also received a Creative Wales Award.[11]

Jones was the first Resident Poet at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, and was Resident Writer of Cardiff Wetlands. She received a Literature Matters Award from the Royal Society of Literature in 2019 in order to create a podcast about this.[12] Previously, she has created a podcast for London's Apples & Snakes,[13] who she has headlined for at several of their spoken word events.[14][15]

The poet coordinated International Dylan Thomas Day in 2016 and 2017.[16] In 2018, she volunteered to help Dylan's granddaughter, Hannah Ellis, in running the day. As part of this, Jones organised a worldwide competition to create the world's longest love poem from collated entries, which was successful.[17]