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Herbert Williams Launches Wrestling in Mud: New & Selected Poems

14 June 2007, 7.30 pm
Glanfa, Wales Millennium Centre

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.”

For anyone in Wales with the slightest interest in who we are and how we manage our rain–driven lives this is essential reading. - Peter Finch

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. Visit www.hayfestival.com for more information.

For more information contact Jan Fortune-Wood at jan@cinnamonpress.com