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First Thursday: Latvian poet Krišjānis Zeļģis reads from 'Beasts'
'Accomplished and vibrant', Planet reviews Rebel Sun
'Sophie McKeand's Rebel Sun is no dying star, but a fiery tour de force, full of surreal and ingenious imagery. [...] a passionate and heartfelt book, a collection of modern agitprop poetry in which Marxism and landscape rub easy shoulders, and the Rebel Sun acts as an agitator, its manifesto calling for a reconnection with the natural world [...] Accomplished and vibrant, this is a collection to cherish.' – Kathy Miles, Planet
Rocking the Boat with the Llansteffan Literature Festival
Llansteffan Literary Festival is a week-long celebration of books, stories, and poetry running from June 3rd - June 10th. We're excited by the wealth of talented writers this year, coming from as near as Cardiff and as far as Latvia.
The Final Better Houses Tour Date: The Melville Centre, Abergavenny
Roll up, roll up for the 22nd and very last date of the Better Houses tour in Abergavenny on Sunday 22 April at 11.30am! Susie Wild reads from her new volume of poetry, talks about writing it, and discusses questions raised by the audience. She says: ‘I will be reading from my debut poetry collection. Better Houses is about the places we inhabit in life, about relationships and the extraordinary in the everyday. It has all the key subjects: birth, death, sex, love and loss. At the book’s core, it is as much about moving house as it is about trying to...
See Parthian Poets & Friends at The Forecourt Fringe in Laugharne
Join us in Laugharne for two lunchtime sessions of readings at The Forecourt Fringe Festival. Readers added include Mari Ellis Dunning, Natalie Ann Holborow, Susie Wild, Mark Blayney, Rhys Owain Williams, Siôn Tomos Owen, Tracey Rhys and Lee Prosser. Siôn will also be playing us some songs on Sunday while novelist Tyler Keevil will perform his No Good Brother(s) show for his new novel's launch tour with his musician brother Jonathan Keevil. More TBA! We are there 11am-12noon Sat and 11am-3pm Sun. Come along! Part of our Parthian at 25 celebrations.
