Important links
Catch Jamie reading live at a venue near you (if you live near one of these places)
2nd September 25: ONLINE Cheltenham Poetry Festival Open Mic Maestros 7PM TICKET LINK
17th September 25: CARDIFF Book Space, Poetry Open Mic 6.30PM TICKET LINK
1St November 25: SWANSEA Tangled Parrot, Love Poetry Hate Racism 7PM TICKET LINK
19th November 25: NEWPORT Ye Olde Murenger House TICKETS TBC
Buy Black Skies Dies Starless and Rebel Blood Cells from The Punk Dust Poetry shop or ask your local bookseller.New single The 90s / I’ve Found God in Seattle on YouTube and Bandcamp
Biography
Jamie Woods is a writer and occasional guitarist from Swansea. He has had poetry in Poetry Wales, iamb, and Ink Sweat and Tears; short fiction in Evergreen Review and The Lonely Crowd; and his poem ‘Ring the Bell’ was commended in the Hippocrates International Prize for Poetry and Medicine 2021.
His debut pamphlet Rebel Blood Cells was published in June 2023, and the follow-up Black Skies Die Starless in July 2025- you can order both from Punk Dust Poetry
Read and listen to Jamie’s poetry here >
His ‘special interests’ include Star Wars, 90s indie music, watching football, and reading.
Leukaemia
In August 2019 Jamie was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia (APL) – a rare and dangerous form of blood cancer.
He has been in remission since 2020, and tries to help other leukaemia patients as a patient panellist, mental health advocate, podcast guest, fundraiser, and is now Poet in Residence of the charity Leukaemia Care UK.
You can read Jamie’s Leukaemia story on Leukaemia Care’s website.
Teaching
Between 2019 and 2023, Jamie taught part-time Creative Writing courses for adults at Cardiff University,
In 2014 he worked with Literature Wales and the Wales Millennium Centre on a cross-art form schools project, based on the work of Dylan Thomas. Developing Dylan Workshops
He’s also taught an undergraduate Creative Writing class at Cardiff University, and has run and supported Creative Writing sessions in schools for children of all ages across Cardiff and Swansea.
Contact
If you’d like to get in touch, whether to say hello, or to ask Jamie to write or read or teach or work on a project (or something else equally exciting), then say hello on instagram, BlueSky, Threads – it’s JamieWoods77 everywhere, or fill in this form. Go on. He’ll write back. Promise.
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