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  • A Poet’s Life – Poetry Workshops

    Explore the Art and Passion of Poetry Course Description: Dive into the world of poetry with A Poet’s Life, a course designed for aspiring poets. Explore poetic forms, creative expression, and engage in the life of influential poet, playwright and artivist, Mark Christmas, who will be on hand to offer encouragement in developing your own, unique poetic voice. The course is limited to a group of 6 people and offers opportunity to write then read your work (if you want to). Please bring all of your own writing material and implements, tea and coffee will be supplied at a minimal cost. [...]

  • Poetry Upstairs – A book launch of Shook Up! by Ric Hool

    Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

    A book launch of Shook Up! by Ric Hool Ric Hool has 13 collections of published poetry and is widely featured in poetry magazines & anthologies. His poetic themes include psychological and geographical impact of place, time and space on experience. He has run the reading series Poetry Upstairs in Abergavenny for 30 years. Ric Hool is from Northumberland.

  • Poetry Upstairs -Graham Harthill & Clare e Potter

    Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

    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.   clare e. potter is a poet and radio presenter who studied and taught in The Deep South (USA). She has had poetry residencies  with the Landmark Trust, performed at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC and was a Hay Festival Writer at Work.  Healing the Pack (Verve Poetry Press) her second poetry collection was [...]

  • Poetry Upstairs

    Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

    To prebook your space email: events@melvillecentre.org.uk  

  • Poetry Upstairs

    Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

    Reserve your seat & pay £5 entrance at the door.

    Free

  • Poetry Upstairs with Zoe Skoulding & Mark Blayney

    Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

    Zoë Skoulding is a poet and literary critic interested in translation, sound and ecology. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University. Her latest collection of poems from Carcanet Press is Do I Look Like an Atmosphere? (2026), following A Marginal Sea in 2022, which was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. Mark Blayney writes fiction, poetry, scripts and journalism. His novella Two kinds of silence won the Somerset Maugham Prize, while his poetry has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition, and his journalism won a Wales Media Award.

    Free

  • POETRY, PEOPLE AND PLACES!

    The Melville Theatre The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

    Due to a family emergency the performance is unfortunately cancelled. Refunds will be issued to those that have already bought tickets.    

    £10.00

  • Living, Dying and Other Messy Human Things

    The Melville Theatre The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

    Open Mic and spoken word poetry - bringing together local talent and featuring poets Lily Redwood and Ceri Baker.  Lily and Ceri first bonded over caring for a parent at end-of-life. Join them as they approach the mess and magic of being mortal with honesty, tenderness and a smattering of playfulness. (includes themes of parenthood, sexuality, death and dying) email: lilyredwoodpoet@gmail.com to sign up for the open mic age 16+

    £10.00

  • Poetry upstairs – Path by Chris Torrance

    Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

    Path presents Chris Torrance's own compilation of his later work, finalised in 2017. The characteristically varied and wide-ranging poems in this major new collection can be read as continuations of the Magic Door sequence, crowning 50 years of Torrance's writing life in rural Wales. 'The character humanises the landscape, and the landscape gives the character his larger dimension: so that, idiosyncratic and fallible as he is, Torrance's persona, his consciousness, can stand for each of us: reaching into the real contexts of being human with an energy and grasp that proffer them to his reader, to share. Torrance enlarges and deepens the world for [...]

    Free

  • Poetry Upstairs

    Gareth Writer-Davies is from Pencelli, Wales He was Longlisted for the National Poetry Competition last year and has been Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize three times. He was Prole Laureate for 2017 and Winner of the Wirral Festival Poetry Competition in 2023. He was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2019. He has five previous poetry publications and will be reading from his most recent, Memento Mori. Natasha Gauthier is a Canadian poet and journalist living in Cardiff. She placed first out of thousands of entries in the 2025 Poetry Wales Award and also won the 2025 New Welsh Review/Borzello Trust Prize for poetry. [...]