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Woolworths

Thursday 12 April 2007, 7.30 pm
Glanfa, Wales Millennium Centre

"It is 1913. Take a ride in the lift of the tallest building in the world – the Woolworth’s Tower, New York. Hear from a shop assistant in the UK’s first ever Woolworths store, in Liverpool. Travel to a hospital bed where a Welsh survivor of the bombed Lusitania lies. And wonder at the magician’s assistant, a beautiful creature who never seems to leave her cabinet . . ."

This is a performance by Aileen la Tourette, Clare Potter and Cath Nichols; three poets with growing reputations from America, Wales and England. They will perform solo work as well as the ensemble piece Liverpool - Cardiff - New York - Woolworths.

The Poets:

Aileen la Tourette - America - Aileen has published two novels (Virago) and has had seven plays broadcast on Radio 4. Her second poetry collection, Touching Base, was launched in 2006. She has also writen a collection of short stories, Oral History, which will be published in 2007.

Clare Potter - Wales - A former winner of the Academi John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry Clare last year recived a Charles Coles Travelling Scholarship and a Future Focus Bursary. Her first poetry collection is Spilling Histories, 2006.

Cath Nichols  - England - Cath features on the Oxfam Poetry CD Life Lines. Her poetry collection Tales of Boy Nancy was presented as a multimedia installation in 2005 during the Homotopia festival and her most recent work My Glamorous Assistant is due to be published in 2007.

For more information contact Academi: 029 2047 2266 or post@academi.org.