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Woolworths

Glanfa, Wales Millennium Centre
Thursday 12 April, 7.30 pm

"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.

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

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

Cath Nichols  - England - As heard on the  Oxfam Poetry CD Lifelines. Tales of Boy Nancy came out in2005, and My Glamorous Assistant is due to be published in 2007.

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