‘Parents’ Evening’ is the opening poem in Clueless Dogs, the debut collection by Welsh performer, poet and musician Rhian Edwards (Seren Books 2012), which won the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry 2011–12, and was shortlisted for the 2012 ‘Best First Collection’ Forward Poetry Prize. Rhian Edwards also works in schools as a visiting writer.
Her witty, sensual poems range over her fraught childhood in Bridgend, and her relationships with family, friends and lovers, softening a sometimes dark, spiky tone with satirical humour, warmth and honesty. Fellow-poet Gillian Clarke has written of her that ‘She captures and subverts cliché for poetry’s purpose, lets sound ring in the lines, weaves common speech with lyrical language’.
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