A book launch of Llyn Y Fan Fach with readings from Caroline Goodwin Graham Hartill & Frank Olding.

Caroline Goodwin lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is serving as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Her books include Peregrine (Finishing Line Press, 2015), Trapline (JackLeg Press 2013), and the chapbooks Kodiak Herbal and Text Me, Ishmael. She teaches at California College of the Arts and the Stanford Writer’s Studio, holds a BA in Biology and an MFA from the University of British Columbia.

Graham Hartill moved to the Black Mountains in 1992. He has published seven co-translations with Wu Fusheng (of the University of Utah) from classical Chinese. Graham teaches post-graduate students Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes for the Metanoia Institute in London and was a writer-in-residence at HMP Parc, Bridgend.

Frank Olding writes in Welsh, reads his work in both English and Welsh.Frank was poet in residence at the Art Exhibition of the National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale in 2010 and is a member of the Gorsedd of Bards. He was honoured with an Ovate at the 2011 Eisteddfod in recognition of his services to Wales. His collection of poems Eilun, is rooted deeply in the magical and suggestive relationships between history and mythology