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Margaret Lloyd and Nigel Jenkins

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 7.30 pm
Glanfa, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Free Event

American–based Welsh poet Margaret Lloyd will be reading in Glanfa, Cardiff on Tuesday 19 June 2007 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). This event is part of Academi’s series of literature events in Glanfa.

The Poets:

Margaret Lloyd was born in Liverpool, England of Welsh parents and grew up in a Welsh community in central New York State. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England, and has published a book on William Carlos Williams’ poem Paterson (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). Alice James Books published her first poetry book, This Particular Earthly Scene. She has received a number of awards for her work, including a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She recently published a book-length cycle of poems, A Moment in the Field:  Voices from Arthurian Legend (Plinth Books). Many of the poems in this book were written while on a fellowship at Hawthornden Castle, an International Retreat for Writers in Scotland. Presently, she chairs the Humanities Department at Springfield College, Massachusetts.

Born on a farm in Gower, 1949, Nigel Jenkins was a newspaper reporter in the English Midlands for four years, and then, following a period of travel, studied literature and film at the University of Essex. After working on a circus on the States, he returned to live in Wales in 1976. He has earned his living since then as a writer and lecturer, and co-edited the Academi’s Encyclopaedia of Wales. He has worked as a journalist and has written for the stage. He is a member of the blues and poetry trio the Salubrious Rhythm Company (see their entry). Nigel is Winner of the Welsh Arts Council Young Poets Prize (1974), Eric Gregory Award (1976), John Morgan Writing Award (1992) and the John Tripp Poetry Slam (1999). His travel book Gwalia in Khasia (Gomer Press, 1995) won the Wales Book of the Year award in 1996. Nigel is a Fellow of Academi.

For more information on this event or any of the events Academi holds in Glanfa call 029 2047 2266 / post@academi.org.