Wildlife

Facebook event page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/419006744777859/

Clytemnestra Published  Monday 23 April 2012  at  11:00  by  Susie Wild A former National Poet of Wales, Gwyneth Lewis has also made a name for herself as a librettist and writer of factual prose. Clytemnestra is her first theatre play. As with her recent novel The Meat Tree, a retelling of the story of Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogion, Lewis has once again re-imagined an old text in the near future; reflecting her interest in the contemporary parallels of myths and legends. Nia Gwynne and Jaye Griffiths in Clytemnestra at the Sherman Cymru, Cardiff Photo: Toby Farrow For Clytemnestra, her makeover of Aeschylus’s fifth century BCE Greek trilogy The Oresteia, Lewis has set the story at a time when oil has run out and the world fights for food. Agamemnon is fighting a food war, and sacrifices his daughter to save his people. In his absence, Clytemnestra unravels with the grief and fury of a mother betrayed. The only character not to have her death aveng...

Tomorrow I'll be putting on my Parthian work hat and doing   a mini presentation on women writers in Wales at Pecha Kucha in Chapter . More info about Pecha Kucha Cardiff: PechaKucha Night Cardiff is a free event which is part of a worldwide phenomena now showing in 400 cities worldwide, wit h over 1000 events each year. Drawing it’s name from the Japanese term for the sound of ‘chit chat’, PechaKucha invites selected speakers to share their knowledge through 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds. It's a format that makes presentations concise and keeps things moving at a rapid pace, creating tempo, story, tension, show and tell. PechaKucha Night Cardiff is launched and hosted by Louisa Cameron and is supported by Chapter; Cardiff School of Art & Design, UWIC; Design Wales; Orangutan Studio; Inkling Creative and Culture Colony – Y Wladfa Newydd. PechaKucha Night is trademarked, devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture. Free entry: please reserve free tickets at ...

‘Across The Water’ and ‘Swamp Area’ by Alistair Noon In  Pamphlets  on  April 16, 2012  at  10:28 am - reviewed by  Susie Wild  - Noon invites us to experience life seen as ‘A matinee at the Theatre of Water’ in  these two pamphlets , plunging hidden depths and murky shallows. His chosen forms both follow rules and break rank. A pleasing, readable rhythm pulses through these slim volumes, ebbs and flows like the tide. In  Across The Water  we glimpse fragments that have captured Noon’s attention. His poems blend fleeting flitting thoughts with snapshot word sketches to give us a sense of those moments. The 20-part title sequence is a good example of this brevity of style and expression, using little to say much. His sharp pen portraits capture the city and her people with mica glimmers of tongue in cheek humour. Sun shines, saplings grow and bubbles blow as failings are confessed, skies sag, rubbish is bagged and ...

You can catch me hosting The Cardiff Literary Salon w/ Gwyneth Lewis  at Sherman Cymru on 21 May 2012. Join the group for Cardiff Literary Salon for all event updates. I also have some poetry and flash fiction gigs coming up: 1. Mini Presentation on Women Writers in Wales @ Pecha Kucha , 24 April 2012, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff 6.30 - 8pm 2. I am writing a new piece based on a work of art to read at National Flash Fiction Day, 16 May 2012 at WMC. 3. I am supporting the fab poet Rhian Edwards on her Clueless Dogs book launch tour on these dates: The Crunch/ Skye, Sunday 6 May, Mozart's, Swansea 7pm Launch Proper, Sunday 20 May, Gwdihw, Cardiff 6.30pm - I shall be hosting this too. I shall also read at her gigs at Poets in the Bookshop, Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea (31 May) and First Thursday, Chapter (3 May). Be magic to see your beautiful faces at one or all of them x

' you appeared so many times in the passion on the bbc you should have been on the credits girl..  — with  Michael Sheen ' - Neale Howells Yes it really is one year since The Passion. Watch it/me on iPlayer again:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011wjxs/Passion_in_Port_Talbot_It_Has_Begun/ The Gospel of Us premièred in Port Talbot this weekend:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-17596122 The film will also be shown at the cinema each evening from Monday to Thursday before going on UK-wide release from 13 April.

EXCENTRAL TEMPEST ,  KATE TEMPEST ,  PERFORMANCE POET ,  PLAY ,  POETRY ,  SPOKEN WORD ,  SUSIE WILD ,  THEATRE ,  WASTED WASTED by Kate Tempest In  Performance Poetry  on  April 5, 2012  at  11:35 am - reviewed by  Susie Wild  - @ Sherman Cymru , Cardiff - 24 March 2012 Tempest: Spoken Word to Stage Kate Tempest  has already made a name for herself on the spoken word scene as a poet, rapper and hip hop artist, but with a surname like hers it seems only right that she should cross over to writing for the stage. It is a successful move. Her debut play takes the best elements of these lyrical influences to tell an engaging, emotive story of three friends knee-deep in weekends and growing too old for the drug-fuelled South London party scene. Friends raving or stuck in a rut? The friends have known each other since their teens, and now in their mid-twenties, are finding new concer...

' It is absurd and insulting to assume artists are assisted by despair or hunger in a way that, say, plumbers are not.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/apr/02/myth-of-the-suffering-artist