Abergavenny Writing Fest – Events for Young People
A diverse and exciting day of writing events for Young people as part of Abergavenny Writing Festival
10 events found.
Poetry
Events
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Abergavenny Writing Festival Finale Night
The Melville Theatre The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United KingdomAbergavenny Writing Fest Finale night featuring comedy, music and words
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Finding Your Voice
Sat June 10th - 2.00pm - 5.30pm Tuesday June 27th - 6.00pm - 8.30pm Fun and creative Women's writing sessions
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Poetry Upstairs
Established Monthly Poetry Session in the Melville bar, hosted by Ric Hool. Bringing local and international poets to Abergavenny.
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Poetry Upstairs
Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United KingdomEstablished Monthly Poetry Session in the Melville bar, hosted by Ric Hool. Bringing local and international poets to Abergavenny
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POETRY UPSTAIRS
Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United KingdomEstablished Monthly Poetry Session in the Melville bar, hosted by Ric Hool. Bringing local and international poets to Abergavenny
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Myths, Scars & Wanderings
The Melville Theatre The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United KingdomMyths Scars and Wanderings This collection of new work, explores the themes of Greek Myths, the Sea, Human Resilience and Strength. The group have developed this original work together over the past three months, through an exciting creative process, facilitated by Liz Pearce. Join us for the group's performance of their own writing, poetry and prose – infused with pathos and humour. Saturday 8th June at 7.30. Tickets £12 (including a printed copy of the work)
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Poetry Upstairs – June 2024
Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United KingdomRobert Sheppard has been publishing poetry since 1979, and he has two retrospective collections, Twentieth Century Blues (Salt 2008) and a selected poems History or Sleep (Shearsman 2015).He has published collaborative work with Bob Cobbing, Patricia Farrell, Pete Clarke. Robert is also a critic and an editor. Robert Sheppard lives in Liverpool. Abigail Parry’s poems have been set to music, translated into Spanish and Japanese. She has won the Ballymaloe Prize, the Troubadour Prize, and an Eric Gregory Award. Her first collection, Jinx (Bloodaxe) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize. Her second [...]
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Poetry Upstairs (Phil Bowen & JLM Morton)
Melville Centre Cafe-Bar The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, United KingdomPhil Bowen is a poet, performer, biographer and playwright. Salt published Nowhere's Far - New & Selected Poems in 2008. His biography of the Mersey Poets, A Gallery to Play To was republished by Liverpool University Press also in 2008. His plays include A Handful of Rain, (an imagined meeting between Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas), and Anything But Love, an adaptation of the writings of Dorothy Parker and the lyrics of Dorothy Fields. His poem 'Blue Docs' won The Quaterly Prize for the 2023 Spring Issue of The Lyric (est 1921) Recent work includes 'Love Somehow' – a multi award [...]
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Poetry Upstairs with Michael W Thomas & Emily Cotterill
Michael W. Thomas’s latest poetry collection is A Time for Such a Word (Black Pear Press). His latest novel is The Erkeley Shadows (KDP / Swan Village Reporter). His work has appeared in, among others, The Antioch Review, Critical Survey, The London Magazine and the TLS. He is on the editorial board of Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies (University of Bialystok, Poland). Emily Cotterill is a Cardiff based poet, originally from Alfreton in Derbyshire. Her debut collection Significant Wow was published by Seren in February 2025. The collection explores themes of celebrity, story-telling and pop culture. The collection follows the 2019 pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants (smith|doorstop) which was part of [...]
