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The Secret: Zoë Brigley in Glanfa
Tonight

Tuesday 16 October 2007
Glanfa Wales Millennium Centre, 7.30 pm
Free Entry

The Secret, an innovative first collection by young Welsh writer Zoë Brigley was published in September 2007 by Bloodaxe Books. Join Zoë as she reads from her debut collection in Glanfa Wales Millennium centre on Tuesday 16 October 2007.

The Secret, which has earned a Recommendation from the Poetry Book Society, a rare honour for a first collection, forms an uncharacteristically large body of work for a first book of poems. It maps a poetic journey set against various landscapes, from Europe through to the jungles, deserts and mountains of Central America. A number of the poems are about Wales and use traditional Welsh verse and the Welsh language within them. Fellow Welsh poet Gillian Clarke has welcomed this sparkling debut from the 26 year old. She writes:

This is a daring collection, and unlike any other I have read. It is musical, strange, intelligent, original poetry. The thought and structure and the textual layering are complex, but the simplicity of the language (which weaves Spanish, Aztec and Welsh into the English) carries the reader through and over the tangled currents of history, mythology, science, and stories from everywhere - Gillian Clarke

Zoë Brigley was born in 1981 in Caerphilly in the Rhymney Valley, South Wales and now lives in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. She is currently a Postgraduate Fellow and part-time Tutor at the University of Warwick. She is due to finish her PhD thesis in September on ’Women in Exile, Poets of Wales 1994 to 2004’. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 and received an Academi bursary in 2005. She also received fellowships with the University of East Anglia and the Centre for Translation in Tarazona, Spain. She has travelled and worked in Central America, especially Mexico.

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This event is part of Academi’s series of free literature events in Glanfa, Wales Millennium Centre