News Archive

Academi in Glanfa

June – July 2007
Glanfa, Wales Millennium Centre
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Herbert Williams Launch – Thursday 14 June 2007, 7.30 pm
Join Herbert Williams and Cinnamon Press, supported by Academi, for the Cardiff launch of Wrestling in Mud: New & Selected Poems on June 14th at 7.30 pm (arrivals from 7.00 pm) in the Glanfa, Welsh Millennium Centre. Wrestling in Mud is Herbert’s long overdue collection spanning five decades of excellent poetry writing. “There’s a sense of history here,” comments Ruth Bidgood, but also poems “that do indeed ‘sing a greeting’ to the future.” The new poems display a poet who, as Ifor Thomas says, is, “at the peak of his powers, a wise, reflective, mature poet who at the same time delights in being as scurrilous and acerbic as a thwarted teenager.”

Herbert will also be reading at the Guardian Hay on Wye Festival on Thursday 31 May 2007, 5.00 p.m. on the Segovia Stage. Tickets from Hay box-office. www.hayfestival.com. For more information contact Jan Fortune-Wood at jan@cinnamonpress.com

Margaret Lloyd and Nigel Jenkins - Tuesday 19 June 2007, 7.30 pm
America-based Welsh poet Margaret Lloyd will be reading alongside fellow Welsh poet Nigel Jenkins. Margaret will be reading from her latest collection of poetry A Moment in the Field:  Voices from Arthurian Legend (Plinth Books) while Nigel will read from his latest haiku collection, O For a Gun, and from Hotel Gwales (Gomer, 2006).

uncaged sea - Thursday 28 June 2007, 7.30 pm
2006 Cardiff International Poetry Competition winner John Goodby performs uncaged sea, a mesostic rewriting of Dylan Thomas’ Collected Poems, with Swansea singer Margot Morgan, actress Angela Coldrick and background music. The piece, which is based on John Cage’s Roaratario: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake, was first performed in October 2006 at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea. 

Honno Launch - Thursday 26 July 2007, 7.30 pm 
Honno, Welsh Women’s Press, launch Claire Peate’s new novel – Big Cats and Kitten Heels a hilarious follow-up to her heartwarming first novel The Floristry Commission, featuring wild parties, the Brecon Beacons, big cats, best friends and a handsome Welshman in wellies. Jo Verity will also read from her most recent novel, Bells, a tale of late-springing love and Morris Dancing. But will the chime of Morris bells turn a woman’s head in the days of the iPod and mobile phone?. For more information on Claire Peate, Jo Verity or Honno, Welsh Women’s Press visit www.honno.co.uk.

For more information on any of the Academi events taking place in Glanfa call 029 2047 2266 or email post@academi.org.