Booklaunch - Oh Dad! by Lloyd Robson
The Dylan Thomas Centre
Wednesday, 18 June at 7pm
The Dylan Thomas Centre and Parthian Books launch Lloyd Robson’s Oh Dad! on Wednesday, 18 June at 7pm.
Oh Dad! is Cardiff poet Lloyd Robson’s search for one of Hollywood’s most complex characters, Robert Mitchum. This fascinating book tells the story of Mitchum as Lloyd follows in his […]
Back to the Present
The latest issue of New Welsh Review is out now. In this issue Alan Riach reviews the recently published Poetry 1900-2000: One hundred poets from Wales; Andrew Green, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, argues for a digital ‘theatre of memory’; Kirsti Bohata considers three recent publications that offer a feminist perspective on the […]
Ifor ap Glyn named Bardd Plant Cymru 2008-9
From the Academi newsletter:
In a ceremony on the main stage at the Eisteddfod yr Urdd in Llandudno on Tuesday 27 May, Ifor ap Glyn was named as the Children’s Poet Laureate - Bardd Plant Cymru - for 2008-09. Following Caryl Parry Jones’ incredibly succesful year in the post, Ifor will take over the task of […]
Prize-winning Poet Sails Away with £5000
From the Academi newsletter:
The results of the 2008 Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition were announced at a floating ceremony aboard cruise vessel Seren Y Bae on Tuesday 3 June 2008.
Rose Flint from Wiltshire sailed away with the first prize of £5000 for her poem The Field. Judges Jo Shapcott and U A Fanthorpe commented that […]
Wales Book of The Year Shortlist
From the Academi newsletter:
The Short List Announced at the Guardian Hay Festival
The Short Lists for the Wales Book of the Year 2008 were announced on Monday 26 May 2008, on the Segovia Stage at the Guardian Hay Festival in the presence of the Minister for Heritage, Rhodri Glyn Thomas.
Judges Trevor Fishlock for […]
Janice Moore Fuller
Friday, 13 June at 7.30pm
Lunchtime Theatre – Saturday, 7 and Saturday 14 June at 1pm
The Dylan Thomas Centre
Acclaimed poet Janice Moore Fuller reads at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Friday, 13 June at 7.30pm.
Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina, Janice Moore Fuller has published three volumes of poems—Archeology Is […]
Reading: John Dressel & David Lloyd
Come and hear the distinguished Welsh-American poets
JON DRESSEL +DAVID LLOYD
read from the new Parthian anthology
OTHER LAND: CONTEMPORARY POEMS ON WALES AND WELSH-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (2008)
4.00 p.m., Wednesday, June 4
Room 216, Keir Hardie Building
Jon Dressel, founder – in St. Louis – of possibly the best pub in America, is renowned as the ‘Yanklo-Welsh’ poet who, with his […]
Poets in the Bookshop with Cherry Smyth
The Dylan Thomas Centre
Thursday, 22 May at 7.30pm
Irish poet Cherry Smyth is this month’s guest reader at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Thursday, 22 May at 7.30pm.
Cherry Smyth is an Irish poet, born in Ballymoney, County Antrim and raised in Portstewart. She has written two collections of poetry, a poetry pamphlet, and a book, […]
Writers of Wales
Taken from the latest Academi newsletter:
Academi is currently updating its Writers of Wales pages online, which provide the most comprehensive database of all living writers currently residing or born in Wales. It is an extremely useful resource for all researchers of the literary community of Wales and Academi endeavours to include as much detail as possible.
If you […]
Hey Hey Hay
Taken from latest Academi newsletter:
The Guardian Hay Literature Festival runs from 22 May - 1 June this year. There’s the expected roll call of literary greats, engaging outrider events, talks, walks, performances and celebrations. The world’s best, and it’s in Wales.
Among the highlights this year will be Ken Dodd on Happiness, Kathryn Jenkins talking to […]