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art, Events, history, painting, Peter Lord, Shani Rhys James, social history, talks, Tour, Wales, Welsh art - March 30, 2018

Now Touring: A History of Welsh Art in 12 or 13 Pictures

After a successful debut at the Hay Winter Weekend 2017, Wales Book of the Year 2017 (Non-Fiction) winner Peter Lord is touring his new show 'A History of Welsh Art in 12 or 13 Pictures' across Wales in 2018. See him at the following venues and festivals: 8 April: Melville Centre, Abergavenny 11.30am, £8 6 June: Llansteffan Festival 27 June: Treorchy Arts Festival 13-15 July: Gwyl Arall 27 August: Presteigne Festival With many more to be announced. If you are interested in booking Peter for this talk which can be performed in Welsh, English or bilingually please contact susie@parthianbooks.com Buy The...

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.

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2018, cardiff, Gigs, poetry, readings - March 30, 2018

Poets Rhys Owain Williams and Susie Wild at Milieu on Saturday

‘I avoided becoming a writer for as long as I could’ Interview with Eeva Park, author of The Rules of Bird Hunting, part of the Parthian Baltic Series

Eeva Park is one of the authors featured in the new Parthian Baltic Series. Whilst she began her writing career as a poet, she is also well-known for her short-stories, novels and plays. The Rules of Bird Hunting is a lively, strongly autobiographical collection of poems, exploring changing values over the course of a lifetime, and features the author’s best work from the last three decades. Eeva Park tells us more about her writing, her influences and gives us some insight into the process of both translating and being translated.

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March 14, 2018