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GIG ALERT: Christina & Tracey at the Cellar Bards



We have two wonderful guest poets / writers next month at the Cellar Bards, Christina Thatcher and Tracey Rhys will be joining us, and sharing their inspirational words which will be held at The Cellar Cafe, Cardigan on Friday 11th July, doors open at 7.30 pm. Entry fee is £5 which includes a free raffle.


Christina Thatcher grew up between a farm and a ranch house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She won a Marshall Scholarship to study in the UK and now lectures at Cardiff University. Her poetry and short stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including Ambit, Poetry Wales, The North and The Poetry Review. She has published two earlier collections, More than you were and How to Carry Fire. Christina has toured internationally, reading her work in the UK, USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Switzerland and Romania. She lives with her gardener husband, Rich, and their cat, Miso






We also have Tracey Rhys who is a freelance writer and editor from South Wales. Her poems, stories and essays have appeared in Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Planet, The High Window, Dreich, Ink Sweat & Tears and numerous anthologies. A winner of the Poetry Archive's Now: Wordview competition, her writing has been listed for competitions including the Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Competition, the Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition and the Cardiff International Poetry Competition. Her pamphlet Teaching a Bird to Sing was published in 2016. Bathing on the Roof is her first collection.

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