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Academi Celebration

Thursday 30 November, 7.30 pm
Norwegian Church, Cardiff Bay

With Academi membership growing year on year, this is a chance to celebrate some of its Members.  Join us as we welcome two recent additions to the membership list, Kathryn Gray and Trevor Fishlock, and make a toast to longstanding Member Mercer Simpson who celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this year.

Gillian Clarke will introduce readings by Kathryn Gray and Trevor Fishlock and tributes to Mercer Simpson by some of his friends and colleagues including Anne Cluysenaar, Hilary Llewellyn–Williams and Mike Jenkins.

Tickets: £4 / £3
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029 2047 2266 or post@academi.org

Kathryn Gray was born in Caerphilly and brought up in Swansea.  She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2001. Her poetry and criticism has appeared in several literary magazines.  Her collection The Never-Never (Seren, 2004) was short-listed in 2004 for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry: the first Welsh-born poet ever to be short-listed for the award.

Trevor Fishlock is a writer and broadcaster. He was staff correspondent for The Times in India and New York, and Moscow bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph. He has worked on assignment in more than sixty countries and has published widely. He writes and presents the popular Wild Tracks series for ITV. He lives in Cardiff.

Mercer Simpson is a poet, critic and editor.  He is a former senior lecturer in the Department of Arts and Languages in the University of Glamorgan. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals.  His work is also featured in the anthologies Hepworth: A Celebration; Poet’s England 15 (Suffolk), 16 (Norfolk) and 20 (Cheshire); and in Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry. He has edited BWA (1986-1991), was a judge for the Welsh Arts Council Literature Awards in 1987, and is a member of the Editorial Board of New Welsh Review since 1992 and is Poetry Editor since 1998.