Rae Howells is a poet, journalist, academic and lavender farmer from Swansea. Her debut collection, The language of bees (Parthian), was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2023. She has previously won both the Rialto Nature and Place and Welsh International poetry competitions and featured in journals including Magma, The Rialto, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Acumen and Poetry Ireland. A keen environmentalist and a believer in the restorative power of wild places, she is poet in residence at Llanelli Wetland Centre. This Common Uncommon is her second poetry collection. You can hear her reading her work at www.iambapoet.com/rae-howells, and you can read more of her poetry and journalism at raehowells.co.uk.
