All Lit Up

Poetry & Prose in Public Places is part of all LIT up, a development programme which aims to get youngsters reading and writing.

Over the past year all LIT up has organised numerous writing workshops, particularly with young people, in order to try and help develop their enjoyment and confidence in writing. At the beginning of 2003 all LIT up invited those who had participated in the workshops as well as the wider public to send in their work for inclusion in the Poetry & Prose in Public Places section of the project. We were delighted by the response and by the obvious wealth of writing talent in Rhondda Cynon Taff. The best of the work submitted to us by local writers ranging in age from eleven to eighty is now on display alongside the work of some of Wales’ most celebrated authors and poets from the past and present. Extracts from poems, stories and plays are now on display in Trains, buses, offices, shops and libraries throughout Rhondda Cynon Taff.

You can read the work and find out where it is displayed by clicking on the links below:

1. From The Angry Summer 20 Idris Davies

2. From Before the Crying Ends John L. Hughes

3. From Visiting Light Jean Earle

4. Y dydd byrraf Mererid Hopwood

5. From Tomb Raider Grahame Davies

6. From Defynyddiol Elin Ap Hywel

7. From Night Bus Owen Sheers

8. From Mouthy Mike Jenkins

9. From Do you think we’ll ever get to see Earth sir? Sheenagh Pugh

10. From Words Catherine Fisher

11. From Rough Boys Sam Adams