'Each of us has a beautiful story to tell '
Rebecca Lowe is a Swansea-based poet and organiser of spoken word events, and editor of Talisman Zine. Her climate emergency poem ‘Tick,Tick’ was a Bread and Roses Spoken Word 2020 Award winner. Her poetry has been featured on BBC Bristol, BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Workshop and BBC Radio 3 and featured in many anthologies, both nationally and internationally, including the recent Ymlaen/Onward anthology of radical Welsh poetry, published by Culture Matters.
Bardd o Abertawe, trefnydd digwyddiadau’r gair llafar a golygydd Talisman Zine yw Rebecca Lowe. Roedd ei cherdd argyfwng hinsawdd ‘Tick, Tick’ yn un o enillwyr y Bread and Roses Spoken Word 2020 Award. Mae ei barddoniaeth wedi ymddangos ar BBC Bristol, Poetry Workshop BBC Radio 4 a BBC Radio 3, ac wedi’i gynnwys mewn sawl blodeugerdd, yn genedlaethol a rhyngwladol, gan gynnwys Ymlaen/Onward, casgliad o gerddi radical Cymreig a gyhoeddwyd yn ddiweddar gan Culture Matters.
Latest Publications

Write Mindfully
Do you long to create but find yourself held back by feelings of inadequacy or fear of judgement? If so, you’re not alone, but it’s never too late to start writing!
I want to help you find and listen to your inner voice – your Soul voice, if you like. Once you do that, you’ll find that writing comes easily to you – as naturally as breathing.
Topics covered include:
- Mindfulness and creativity
- Dealing with imposter syndrome
- What makes a person creative?
- How to handle rejection
- Embracing playfulness and imagination
- Finding your creative flow
- Writing using all your senses
- Creating a writing ritual
And much more!
Never let anybody tell you that you are not good enough. You are more than enough. You are beautiful, precious, unique. Nobody can tell your story better than you.
So write it, Sing it,
Dance it,
Shout it,
Be it!
“Exuberant, imaginative, honest, spiritually generous, full of wise advice and suggestions for developing your writing practice. An excellent new book from one of Swansea's most inspiring and prominent poets.”
Rhoda Thomas of Live Poets, on Write Mindfully.
Blood and Water
'A superb first collection and an exciting poetic voice from Swansea's Rebecca Lowe.'
Blood and Water is Rebecca Lowe's first full-length poetry collection. With poems spanning more than a decade, change and identity form an overarching theme, from the title poem describing the wonderment and bewilderment that comes with having a new baby to the later, more self-assured work which encompasses themes of empowerment and vulnerability. Tender and searingly honest, her work takes in Celtic folktales, mythology, climate and the natural landscape to create a celebration of life in all its rich variety, pain and beauty.
Writing about her work, Rebecca says: “We can fall into despair, or we can dare to hope. Those really are our only options. The future is a blank page, and it’s up to us to choose how we fill it. We need to speak up boldly and wisely, with radical passion and revolutionary compassion. We need to write new, better words into the world—words like equality, peace, sustainability, and justice. Because words create worlds.”
Longlisted for Wales Book of the Year. Containing the Bread and Roses Award-winning poem, Tick Tick.
Mesmerising melancholia tinged with hope for a mysterious yet peaceful world. The verses flow and engulf with empathy and beauty.'
Tony Webb, reviewing Blood and Water.

Our Father Eclipse
'Stop.
Freezeframe here.
This...could be your future.
The sky unfurls a blank
scroll every morning'...
Our Father Eclipse is a pseudo-apocalyptic, eco-socialist dystopian vision of the world. Framed amid the realities of global pandemic and climate emergency, it speaks to a post-truth political era where neoliberal capitalism is clearly and dramatically failing.
Dark, yet edged with hope, it contains questions of faith, belief and truth at its heart. Visionary and observational by turns, it is both unsettling and provocative, full of radical passion and revolutionary compassion.'
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‘A brilliant, inventive and original take on contemporary feelings of apocalypse, constructed around the image of a solar eclipse. Wide-ranging and eloquent, these poems barely contain their rage.'
Andy Croft of The Morning Star, writing about Our Father Eclipse.
Get in touch
Get in touch with me today to find out more about my publications, writing and editing services, or to book a Writing Workshop or Feature. Email me at swanmedia@ntlworld.com
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'This is my voice, this is how I choose to use it'...
'We can fall into despair or we can dare to hope. Those really are our only options. For the future is a blank page, and whilst we have words, mouths and voices, it's up to us to choose how we fill it. We need to speak up boldly and wisely, with radical passion and revolutionary compassion. We need to write new, better words into the world - words like equality, peace, sustainability and justice. Because words create worlds.'
Rebecca Lowe is a poet, a mum, a musician, singer, journalist, editor and activist, based in Swansea, South Wales. Her debut collection Blood and Water was longlisted for Wales Book of the Year and she is a Bread and Roses Spoken Word Award winner.
Her poetry has been featured on Radio Four's Poetry Workshop and was set to music by renowned composer Nathan Dearden as part of a series broadcast on Radio Three. Rebecca's poetry has been translated into Hindi, Chinese, Welsh, Romanian and Italian and was featured at Salerno International Poetry Festival and Chinese Spring Poetry Festival.
Rebecca's book Write Mindfully focuses on her own mindful creativity practices and is based on the firm belief that creativity is for everyone, not just a privileged or talented few. Rebecca also runs Mindful Creativity workshops as well as writing workshops and literary events for all ages. She is the organiser and host of Talisman Spoken Word, Swansea's longest-running poetry open mic night.
Rebecca's work has featured in publications including Black Bough, Red Poets, Blackheath Countercultural Review, and Ymlaen/Onward! anthology of radical Welsh Poetry (Culture Matters). Rebecca has also hosted Swan TV's popular broadcasts, Off The Page, showcasing local poets.
Rebecca is a keen peace activist and is currently editing Peaceweavers anthology for Culture Matters. She supports charities including Swansea Asylum Seeker Support Group, Oxfam and others. Alongside her poetry, she sings and plays hammered dulcimer and zither.
She is the proud mum to a 16-year-old all-singing, all-dancing daughter and when they get together it's a bit like the film musical Mamma Mia.

‘In order to be heard, you have to learn to sing softer’- Karen Dalton.
What is your voice? Is it soft or loud, gentle or strong? Your voice is more powerful than you know. How will you use it? How will you use your beautiful, powerfully gentle voice?
- Write Mindfully, Rebecca Lowe
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