BYT: My latest blog on Mslexia

AUGUST 2010
My latest blog on Mslexia

“I don’t know about you, but Summer is turning out to be pretty hectic for me. What with going to festivals as a journalist, going to festivals as a performer, editorial work and preparations for the Bright Young Things book launches, I’ve got very little time for working on The Novel or slobbing about watching iPlayer. Let alone ploughing through my review pile of books. I did make time to write a short poem that was selected by Bugged though, yay, and I thought I ought to make time to blog here because I have some Literary Wales news…”

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In other news, I now also write for theatre bible The Stage and ace literary magazine The Raconteur have asked me to be a regular blogger for them on their all new digital edition website, so look forward to that from September.

It is Green Man festival this weekend. I’m reading poems with Patrick Jones, Mab Jones and Rhian Edwards at The Literature Tent on Sunday at 3pm. See you there!

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