Poetry

John Barnie was born and raised in Abergavenny, and the town and surrounding countryside have played an important part in his writing. He is the author of twenty collections of poetry, as well as collections of essays, and two memoirs. In 2016 he was poet-in-residence at Oxford University's Museum of Natural History. He also plays and sings in the blues band Hollow Log. Philip Gross is a long-haul traveller in the world of poetry, with nearly 30 collections in 40 years, some prizes, 30 years enabling creativity in schools and universities, and a commitment to creating space in poems for the nuanced [...]

John Goodby and David Annwn present a dramatised performance and reading of their ground-breaking and irreverent version of Giraldus Cambrensis’ seminal journey through Wales. This was an expedition to raise men to fight in the Third Crusade, but Gerald and his fellow travellers encountered a wild environment: a land of sudden ambushes, theft and murder, of improbable tales and strange visions, of healing trees and impromptu levitations. Join David and John on their foray into a mysterious scape where superstition and myths multiply and language bristles with strange possibilities.