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Seren's First Thursday Poetry Reading 

Thursday 4 March, 7.00 pm
Chapter Arts Centre, Canton, Cardiff

This month's First Thursday poetry reading event at Chapter Arts Centre features guest poets PhilipGross and Hilary Llewellyn-Williams. Plus open mic session. 

Philip Gross’s latest poetry collection, The Water Table (Bloodaxe), was the winner of the T.S.Eliot Prize 2009. He won the National Poetry Competition is 1982, and since then has published fifteen collections, first with Faber then with Bloodaxe. The Wasting Game, a response in poetry to teenage anorexia in the family, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize in 1998, while his latest novel for young people The Storm Garden (OUP, 2006) is a tense and atmospheric foray into Narcissistic Personality Disorder, risk, celebrity and love. I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon Press) with photographer Simon Denison, is the latest product of long interest in collaboration and cross arts work. A new collection of poems for young people, Off-Road To Everywhere, is due shortly from Salt. He is Professor in Creative Writing at Glamorgan University.

Hilary Llewellyn-Williams has been a published poet with Seren since 1987 and her work has been widely anthologised. She teaches poetry and creative writing for the Open University, and gives frequent readings and workshops in Wales and elsewhere.  She lives in south east Wales, where she also works as a counsellor and therapist. She co-edits the literary journal ‘Scintilla’.  Her most recent collection with Seren is Greenland (2003). And she is currently working with artist Tim Rossitter on a poetry and paintings project based on the legend of Taliesin from the Mabinogion.

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