- Tuesday, March 27, 2012
- 7:00pm until 10:00pm
- Another amazing line-up. Another fantastic evening of the Absurd!
One of the UK’s finest comic poets, Luke Wright, brings his own unique blend of satire, biting wit and original verse to our stage. His most recent show, Cynical Ballads, completed a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2011.
“The best young performance poet around.” The Observer
“One of the funniest and most brilliant poets of his generation.” Johann Hari, The Independent
Mslexia's 'Literary It Girl', writer, journalist, editor, poet and film-maker, Susie Wild is taking the Welsh literary world by storm. Amongst other things Susie hosts the Uplands and Cardiff Literary Salons, is Associate Editor of Parthian Books, and the author of The Art of Contraception: long-listed for Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2011.
Chester-based poet, musician and troubadour Chris Ingram has a wealth of poems whose performances are enriched by a love of crafting verse. Chris has a loyal following in his home country of Scotland having toured there extensively. He is currently performing music and poetry in hospitals across the UK with his ‘Music in Hospitals’ project.
Clwyd Theatr Cymru
Mold, Flintshire
Open floor will run 7.30pm – 8pm. Doors open 7pm.
Tickets £6/£5 concessions.
This event is supported by Literature Wales.
Thrilled to see Julia Bell's Hymnal on WAR's ' Best Poetry Collections of 2023 ' list! Late in the 1960s, before Bell was born, her father and mother visited Aberaeron, a small fishing town on the west coast of Wales. Here, her father heard a voice – which he knew to be God – directing him to minister to the Welsh. Six months after she was born in the early 1970s, they moved to Aberaeron where he took up his first curateship. Over the next eighteen years they would move to various parishes within a forty mile radius: first to Llangeler a predominantly Welsh-speaking parish in the Teifi valley, then back to Aberaeron where Bell’s father became vicar, and then to a larger and more Evangelical church in Aberystwyth. This unique memoir in verse offers a series of snapshots about religion and sexuality. In verse because it’s how Bell remembers: snapshots in words strung along a line, which somehow constitute a life. Snapshots of another time from now, but from a time whic
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