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Cardiff Literary Salon Returns on 11th December 2012 Sherman Cymru have got their alphabet blocks out in anticipation... Sherman Cymru plays host to the Cardiff Literary Salon Tuesday 11 December  - 7.30pm Special Guest:  Carrie Etter American expat Carrie Etter has published two collections, The Tethers (winner, London New Poetry Award; Seren, 2009) and Divining for Starters (Shearsman, 2011), and edited Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010). Her poems have recently appeared in New Welsh Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, and The Rialto, among other journals.  For more information on the event visit the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/269864903116866/ You should also join the Facebook Group for Cardiff Literary Salon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/199181613515199/

A Welsh reality TV car crash Susie Wild says an emotional void has taken Wales out of the Valleys November 8th, 2012 Share on linkedin More Sharing Services 3 All would be well if, if, if Cry the green bells of Cardiff Why so worried, sisters, why Sang the silver bells of Wye And what will you give me Say the sad bells of Rhymney From  The Bells of Rhymney  by Idris Davies By now you have probably seen or heard about MTV’s latest Reality TV show  The Valleys . Filmed in Wales, it is a spin off from  Geordie Shore , MTV UK’s commercial hit show which was based in Newcastle. Following a similar format MTV producers chose volatile wannabe halfwits trying to make it in ‘the industry’, this time plucking nine young people from the ‘obscurity’ of the south Wales valleys and placing them in a share house in the bright lights of Cardiff. Although the show is unscripted, unlike  TOWIE  and  Made in Chelsea , it still sets up scenarios and...

Thursday 1 November 2012, 15:44 Laura Chamberlain 56 Share Facebook Twitter COMMENTS Tagged with: arts and culture ,  festivals ,  music ,  literature Organisers of the inaugural Do Not Go Gentle festival, which takes place in Swansea this weekend, have kept one of the city's most famous sons firmly in mind during its planning. The new festival celebrates the life and work of Dylan Thomas. As the website says, it aims "to be a festival Dylan might have liked, and yes that involves beer, but it also involves cosy and atmospheric venues, great acts and the lovely people of Swansea who first inspired him to write all those years ago." Writers involved in the weekend include the inaugural winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, Rachel Trezise; poet Rhian Edwards, who was the winner of the 2012 John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry; writer and co-organiser of the recent  xx minifest of women's writing , Susie Wild; plus comic poet and perform...