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National Identity, is it an Issue?

Friday 20 April 2007, 7.30 pm
Function Room One, Wales Millennium Centre
£6 / £4

How important is our national identity? Academi brings the debate to a head on Friday 20 April at the Wales Millennium Centre with Gwyn Thomas (National Poet of Wales) and Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom) meeting on stage for the first time to debate what it is to be an official bard and how national identity plays its part in that role. This lively and unique discussion will be chaired by a poet who knows the subject only too well, the first National Poet of Wales, Gwyneth Lewis. Wales versus England. National Poet versus Poet Laureate. Neighbours from hell or perfect fellow travellers? This is a meeting of two incredible poetic minds and is not to be missed.

For more information contact Academi on 029 2047 2266 / post@academi.org.