{"id":1619,"date":"2012-02-27T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T12:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2025-05-13T06:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T06:36:22","slug":"hay-poetry-jamboree-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/1619\/hay-poetry-jamboree-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"HAY POETRY JAMBOREE 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Patrons &#8211; MARJORIE PERLOFF and ALLEN FISHER<\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Four years, and still dancing &#8211; here comes the Hay Poetry Jamboree 2012. Another great and varied line-up showcasing some of the most interesting and challenging poets of the era, from the brand-new to the long-established: a bristling cross-generational congeries of modes, styles, allegiances and philosophies.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Poetry Jamboree is now establishing a fraternal relationship with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/traghettipoesiacagliari\/\">TRAGHETTI DI POESIA Festival Internazionale<\/a> at Cagliari, which it is hoped will bear much fruit.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">SUPPORT US BY BECOMING A FRIEND OF THE POETRY JAMBOREE 2012<\/span> (see below for info).<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>THE PROGRAMME<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THURSDAY JUNE 7TH<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6.30 \u2013 7.30 pm<\/span> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Festival Launch Receptio<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7.30 \u2013 9.15 pm<\/span> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Andrea Brady and John Powell Ward<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FRIDAY JUNE 8th<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">11 \u2013 12 am<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Jeremy Hilton, Waterloo Press, Steven Hitchins<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2.00 \u2013 4.00 pm<\/span> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">C<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">aroline Goodwin, Harry Gilonis, Laurie Duggan, Philip Terry<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5.00 \u2013 6.00 pm<\/span> <span style=\"color: #993366;\">Boiled String Chapbooks: John Goodby introduces new books from the series, with readings by Rhys Trimble and David Barnett<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><strong> <\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7.30 \u2013 9.15 pm<\/span> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Harriet Tarlo and Peter Larkin<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SATURDAY JUNE 9th<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">11.00 \u2013 12.00<\/span> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">David Greenslade, Keith Hack<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">wood<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2.00 \u2013 <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4.00<\/span> <span style=\"color: #993366;\">pm<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Nerys Williams, Tim Atkins, Sophie Robinson, Jeff Hilson<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7.30 \u2013 <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9.15<\/span> <span style=\"color: #993366;\">pm<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Ulli Freer and Tony Lopez<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3><strong> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ART EVENTS<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Art in the chapel:<\/span> Nervous Energy in collaboration with Elysium \tGallery presents From Purgatory to Paradise (see below).<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the gallery:<\/span> Tim Rossiter, Olivia Williams<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bookings and Information on all events from: goodbard@yahoo.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Oriel Contemporary Arts, Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay on Wye<\/p>\n<p>Entrance to 7.30 events \u00a35 (Concessions \u00a33). All other events \u00a32 (Concessions \u00a31)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hay Poetry Jamboree is sponsored by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>LITERATURE WALES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> <\/strong><strong>SWANSEA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES\/CREW<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> <\/strong><strong>WATERLOO PRESS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><strong>POETRY WALES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>THE PERFORMERS<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Harriet Tarlo <\/strong>is a poet and academic who lives in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, and is Course Leader for the M.A. Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Poetry publications include <em>Love\/Land<\/em> (REM Press, 2003), <em>Poems 1990-2003<\/em> (Shearsman Books, 2004) and <em>Nab<\/em> (Etruscan Books, 2005). Her poems about the Cumbrian coast appeared with Jem Southam\u2019s <em>Clouds Descending <\/em>photographic exhibitions at The Lowry Gallery, Salford and Tullie House, Carlisle in 2008-9 and in a book of the same name with the Lowry Press, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet Tarlo edited a special feature on \u201cWomen and Eco-Poetics\u201d for <em>How2<\/em> Vol 3: No 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asu.edu\/pipercwcenter\/how2journal\/\/vol_3_no_2\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.asu.edu\/pipercwcenter\/how2journal\/\/vol_3_no_2\/index.html<\/a> and is editor of <em>The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry <\/em>for<em> <\/em>Shearsman Press in 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shearsman.com\/pages\/books\/catalog\/2011\/GroundAslant.html\">http:\/\/www.shearsman.com\/pages\/books\/catalog\/2011\/GroundAslant.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her current projects include the preparation of a new collection of poetry with the Shearsman, a critical-creative work in progress on the field parts of which appear in the latest <em>Fire<\/em>, in an <em>Asterisk<\/em> publication with Fewer and Further Press, 2011 and in a new book on <em>Placing Poetry<\/em>, due out with Rodopi in 2012 and a collaboration with the artist Judith Tucker to be shown at the Holmfirth Arts Festival in June 2012.<\/p>\n<p>She also writes academic essays on modernist and contemporary poetry with particular attention to gender and landscape and environment. Essays in books appear in critical volumes published by Edinburgh University Press., Salt, Palgrave and Rodopi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Duncan <\/strong>has published five books about modern British poetry and is about to publish two more. Has been somehow involved with Angel Exhaust magazine for the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philip Terry<\/strong> has taught at the universities of Caen, Plymouth and Essex, where he is currently Director of Creative Writing.\u00a0 His fiction, poetry and translations have been widely published in journals in Britain and America.\u00a0 His books include the lipogrammatic novel <em>The Book of Bachelors <\/em>(1999), the anthology of short stories <em>Ovid Metamorphosed <\/em>(2000), <em>Oulipoems <\/em>(2006), <em>Oulipoems 2 <\/em>(2009), and <em>Shakespeare\u2019s Sonnets <\/em>(2010), and he is the translator of Raymond Queneau\u2019s <em>Elementary Morality <\/em>(2007).\u00a0 In 2011 he edited an issue of the online magazine <em>Ekleksographia<\/em> \u201cAfter Oulipo\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com\/issuethree\/index.html\">http:\/\/ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com\/issuethree\/index.html<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrea Brady<\/strong> was born in Philadelphia, USA, and studied at Columbia University and the University of Cambridge.\u00a0 She is presently Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, where she teaches early modern and contemporary literature.\u00a0 She is Director of the Archive of the Now (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archiveofthenow.org\/\">http:\/\/www.archiveofthenow.org<\/a>), an online repository of contemporary poets reading their work, and co-publisher of the small press Barque (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barquepress.com\/\">http:\/\/www.barquepress.com<\/a>), for which she edited 100 Days, an anthology of dissenting poetry written to mark the inception of the Bush administration. Her books of poetry include Wildfire: A Verse Essay on Obscurity and Illumination (Krupskaya, 2010), Embrace (Object Permanence, 2005) and Vacation of a Lifetime (Salt, 2001). Mutability: scripts for infancy is forthcoming from Seagull in 2012, and Cut From The Rushes will follow in 2013 from Reality Street.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>Archive of the Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archiveofthenow.org\/authors\/?i=5\">http:\/\/www.archiveofthenow.org\/authors\/?i=5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>the British Electronic Poetry Centre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soton.ac.uk\/~bepc\/poets\/Brady.html\">http:\/\/www.soton.ac.uk\/~bepc\/poets\/Brady.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interviewed by Andrew Duncan: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.argotistonline.co.uk\/Brady%20interview.htm\">http:\/\/www.argotistonline.co.uk\/Brady%20interview.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.qmul.ac.uk\/staff\/bradya.html\">http:\/\/www.english.qmul.ac.uk\/staff\/bradya.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Lopez<\/strong> is an English poet of international repute. His latest books are <em>Only More So<\/em> and a new edition of <em>False Memory<\/em>, both published by Shearsman in 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shearsman.com\/pages\/books\/authors\/lopezTA.html\">http:\/\/www.shearsman.com\/pages\/books\/authors\/lopezTA.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was born in Stockwell in 1950 and grew up in Brixton, South London. He began work by writing fiction for newspapers and magazines, and published five crime and science fiction novels before going to university at Essex and then Cambridge. He has received awards from the Wingate Foundation, the Society of Authors, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Arts Council England. His poetry is featured in <em>The<\/em> <em>Art of the Sonnet<\/em> (Harvard University Press), <em>Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry<\/em> (Oxford University Press), <em>Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems<\/em> (Salt), <em>The Reality Street Book of Sonnets<\/em> (Reality Street), <em>Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 <\/em>(Wesleyan University Press), and <em>Conductors of Chaos<\/em> (Picador). His critical writings are collected in <em>Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry<\/em> (Salt) and <em>The Poetry of W.S. Graham<\/em> (Edinburgh University Press). He taught for many years at the University of Plymouth, where he was appointed the first Professor of Poetry; he now works on public art incorporating text. He is married with two grown up children and lives in Exmouth in Devon. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonylopez.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.tonylopez.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Laurie Duggan<\/strong> was born in Melbourne in 1949. Over the years he has lived in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane. He moved to the UK in 2006 and currently lives in Faversham, Kent. His books have included two selections: <em>New &amp; Selected Poems<\/em> (University of Queensland Press, 1996) and <em>Compared To What<\/em> (Exeter, Shearsman, 2005) as well as a reprint of his documentary poem <em>The Ash Range<\/em> (Shearsman, 2005). His most recent books are <em>Crab &amp; Winkle<\/em> (Shearsman, 2009), a new edition of <em>The Epigrams of Martial<\/em> (Boston, Pressed Wafer, 2010), <em>Allotments <\/em>(Wendell, Mass., Fewer &amp; Further, 2011) and <em>The Pursuit of Happiness<\/em> (Shearsman,2012). His blog, Graveney Marsh, is at graveneymarsh.blogspot.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim Atkins<\/strong> is the author of many books, including Petrarch, To Repel Ghosts, 1000 Sonnets, Honda Ode, and Horace. Petrarch is forthcoming from Vancouver&#8217;s Book Thug Press. He is editor of the online poetry magazine onedit, and translator of Petrarch, Horace, and Buddhist texts.<\/p>\n<p>Online links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedit.net\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.onedit.net\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archiveofthenow.org\/authors\/?i=1\">http:\/\/www.archiveofthenow.org\/authors\/?i=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soton.ac.uk\/~bepc\/poets\/atkins.htm\">http:\/\/www.soton.ac.uk\/~bepc\/poets\/atkins.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltpublishing.com\/writers\/profile.php?recordID=208004\">http:\/\/www.saltpublishing.com\/writers\/profile.php?recordID=208004<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Tim Atkins does for translation what Gertrude Stein did for nouns.&#8217;&#8211;Lisa Jarnot<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hazardous and buoyant, with all the zip and sass of a Heathrow-unslough\u2019d O\u2019Hara. Not, decidedly, the programmatic constructivist plodding of routine translation homophonickal, not, apparently, translation exactly at all (though I suspect a rather deftly salacious argument\u2019d carry for \u2019l bel tempo rimena\u2019s being auscultated as \u201cthe golden age of homosexuality,\u201d like running a forefinger around a goblet to make it sing&#8230;)&#8217; &#8211;John Latta, Isola di Rifiuti blog<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedit.net\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.onedit.net\/index.html<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedit.net\/\">www.onedit.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Larkin<\/strong> is the author of Terrain Seed Scarcity and Leaves of Fields and a new collection, Lessways Least Scarce Among is due out from Shearsman later this year.\u00a0 He has been interviewed for Intercapillary Space and for Cordite and contributed to Harriet Tarlo&#8217;s Ground Aslant anthology..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Hilson<\/strong>\u2019s publications include stretchers (2006, Reality Street), Bird bird (2009, Landfill) and In The Assarts (2010, Veer Books) (<a rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/cprc\/publications\/Veer_Publications\/Veer030\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/cprc\/publications\/Veer_Publications\/Veer030<\/a>). He also edited The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (2008, Reality Street) (<a rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realitystreet.co.uk\/jeff-hilson.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.realitystreet.co.uk\/jeff-hilson.php<\/a>). Recent work has appeared in This Line\u2019s Not for Turning: An Anthology of Contemporary British Prose Poetry, Herbarium and The Other Room Anthology 3, and poems are forthcoming in Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, Jacket 2: Special British Poets Feature and North Chicago Review. Extracts from In The Assarts and Bird bird can be found online in onedit (<a rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onedit.net\/issue4\/issue4.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.onedit.net\/issue4\/issue4.html<\/a>) and (<a rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onedit.net\/issue4\/issue4.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.onedit.net\/issue4\/issue4.html<\/a>). He teaches Creative Writing at Roehampton University, London and runs the reading series Xing the Line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caroline Goodwin<\/strong> was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. In 1999, she moved to California to attend Stanford University&#8217;s creative writing program. She has published two poetry chapbooks, <em>Kodiak Herbal<\/em> and <em>Gora Verstovia <\/em>and her first full-length collection, <em>Trapline,<\/em> will be published by JackLeg Press in Chicago in May 2013. She lives in the small beachside town of Montara, CA with her husband and two daughters; this is her first trip across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>links: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.me.com\/cgoodwin7\/cgoodwin7\/welcome.html\">my website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacklegpress.com\/home.html\">JackLeg Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Greenslade<\/strong> writes in Welsh and English.\u00a0 He lives in Cefn Cribbwr, near Maesteg, where his Japanese garden is a portal between the wild and the domestic. \u00a0\u00a0His readings often feature a collaborative dimension as do many of his books.\u00a0\u00a0 His latest collection <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lyrical Diagrams<\/span> (Shearsman, 2012) written while in Oman, has an engineering drawing on every page.\u00a0 His collection <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Homuncular Misfit<\/span> (P S Avalon, 2011), the story of his adoption by a crow, \u00a0has been described as \u00a0\u2018both bonkers and brilliant .\u00a0\u00a0 .\u00a0\u00a0 .\u00a0\u00a0 a \u00a0map of powerful alchemical transformation\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/richardgwyn.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/19\/radio-bards-and-an-homuncular-misfit\/\">http:\/\/richardgwyn.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/19\/radio-bards-and-an-homuncular-misfit\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willparfitt.com\/psapobooks.html\">http:\/\/www.willparfitt.com\/psapobooks.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaturewales.org\/writers-of-wales\/i\/129918\/desc\/greenslade-david\/\">http:\/\/www.literaturewales.org\/writers-of-wales\/i\/129918\/desc\/greenslade-david\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Powell Ward<\/strong> was born in Suffolk. Attended Toronto and Cambridge universities. Ran a youth club in Camberwell, London in the early sixties. Honorary Research Fellow at University of Swansea where he taught 1963-1988. Eric Gregory Awards judge 1991-2001. Fellow of the Welsh Academy. Lives in Kent and Gower. Is married with two sons and five grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Editor of <em>Poetry Wales <\/em>1975-1980. Editor\/presenter of BBC Radio 3\u00a0 programme <em>Poetry Now <\/em>1977-1984. Author of critical studies of Wordsworth, Hardy, Raymond Williams, R.S.Thomas, and <em>The Spell of the Song: Letters, Meaning, and English Poetry <\/em>(2004), a study of poetry and the alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>Six collections of mainstream poetry including <em>The Clearing <\/em>(Welsh Arts Council Poetry Prize for 1985) and <em>Selected and New Poems <\/em>(Seren 2004). Mainstream poetry has appeared in <em>Agenda,<\/em> <em>The Independent, London Magazine, New Welsh Review, Poetry Australia, Poetry Chicago (USA), P N Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, The Rialto, Scintilla, TLS, <\/em>on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Three collections of \u201calphabet\u201d poetry including <em>A Certain Marvellous Thing <\/em>(Seren 1993) and <em>Genesis <\/em>(Seren 1996). His concrete poetry collection <em>From Alphabet to Logos<\/em> (Second Aeon) appeared in 1973. His one-man exhibition\/folio of concrete and alternative poetry <em>Poetry or Type<\/em> has appeared at the Kent, Cardiff and Aldeburgh poetry festivals. Individual items of alternative or concrete poetry have appeared in\/at <em>AAAA<\/em> (National Poetry Centre, London 1971); <em>Typewriter Art<\/em> (London Magazine Editions 1975); <em>Typewriter Poems<\/em> (Second Aeon\/Something Else Press 1972); <em>Doc(k)s Postcard<\/em> (<em>Carte Postal<\/em>) (Diffusion Argon, Paris 1978); Visual Poetry Workshop London; Writers Forum London; Newnham College Cambridge; University of East Anglia (exhibition 1975); New 57 Gallery Edinburgh; Dutch Literary Museum, The Hague; Kunstall de Basle, Switzerland; and the magazines or journals <em>Bananas<\/em>, <em>Bete Noire<\/em>, <em>The Independent<\/em>, <em>Planet,<\/em> <em>Second Aeon<\/em>, <em>Time Out<\/em> and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremy Hilton<\/strong> was born near Manchester in 1945, and has degrees in English Literature and in Social Work. From 1972 to 1998, he was employed in various social work fields, mainly in Worcestershire.From 1994 to 2012 he edited and produced the influential alternative poetry magazine, Fire. His poetry has been published widely in the UK and beyond, in magazines and anthologies, since the mid-1960s. Twelve collections of his work have appeared in the small presses since 1973, most recently &#8220;Lighting Up Time&#8221; from Troubadour Press in Leicester in 2006. He was written 3 unpublished novels, and since 2008 he has been composing contemporary chamber music. His String Quartet No. 1 was recently performed in North London by the Jubilee String Quartet. He lives in rural Oxfordshire with his partner, the writer Kim Taplin, and when not being creative he enjoys walking, bird-watching, gardening, playing Bridge, reading fiction and travel-writing, and listening to a wide range of music, both recorded and live.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steven Hitchins<\/strong>&#8216;\u00a0poetry has appeared in <em>Poetry Wales, Fire <\/em>and <em>Chimera<\/em>. His article &#8216;Poetry: Music: Space&#8217; is in <em>Junction Box<\/em> issue 2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/category\/junction-box\/\">https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/category\/junction-box\/<\/a>). His\u00a0homemade pamphlets\u00a0<em>The Basin <\/em>and<em> Palisade\u00a0Winters<\/em> are available from\u00a0<em>The Literary Pocket Book<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/literarypocketblog.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/literarypocketblog.wordpress.com\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harry Gilonis<\/strong> is a poet, editor, publisher, and intermittent art critic.\u00a0\u00a0He has been published widely, including on the lawn of London\u2019s Serpentine Gallery. His writing has been translated into (Scots) Gaelic, Catalan, German, Polish, and Spanish. His books include <strong><em>Reliefs<\/em><\/strong> (first published by the Irish small press hardPressed Poetry), <strong><em>Pibroch<\/em><\/strong> (Morning Star, Edinburgh); <strong><em>Reading H\u00f6lderlin on Orkney<\/em><\/strong> (Grille\/Simple Vice). \u00a0Recent books include\u00a0<strong><em>Acacia Feelings <\/em><\/strong>(Crater) and\u00a0<strong><em>eye-blink <\/em><\/strong>from Veer Books, both based in London; <strong><em>unHealed<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0his book-length adaptation of the Welsh <em>Canu Heledd <\/em>poem-cycle\u00a0is currently unpublished, though excerpts have appeared widely, including in <em>Poetry Wales <\/em>[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/poems.com\/special_features\/prose\/essay_gilonis.php<\/span>] and at the <em>Archive of the Now <\/em>audiovisual<em> <\/em>site [www.archiveofthenow.org\/authors\/].<em> <\/em>He has read at Taigh Chearsabhagh on North Uist, An Lanntair on Lewis, and at the Pier Art Centre in Stromness, Orkney, as well as in Swansea, Cork, New York, Cambridge and London; he runs the semi-dormant Form Books poetry imprint.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nerys Williams<\/strong>, originally from Pen-y-Bont, Carmarthen in West Wales, published her first collection of poetry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serenbooks.com\/book\/sound-archive\/9781854115386\"><em>Sound Archive<\/em><\/a> (2011) with Seren. <em>Sound Archive<\/em> was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis First Volume\/ Forward Prize and the Michael Murphy Award. Nerys is a native Welsh speaker and before entering academia had worked at BBC Wales and as a care assistant on psychiatric wards. She was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholar&#8217;s Award at UC Berkeley in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>A winner of the most recent <em>Poetry Ireland<\/em> Ted McNulty Poetry Prize, she lectures in American Literature at University College, Dublin. She has published poems, critical essays widely and is the author of <em>A Guide to Contemporary Poetry<\/em> (2011) as well as study of contemporary American poetry, <em>Reading Error<\/em>: <em>The Lyric and Contemporary Poetry<\/em> (2007)<em>. <\/em>She is currently working on a<em> <\/em>second volume of poetry which sets up a sequence of exchanges between the 1939 San Francisco Exhibition, Ireland and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Websites:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/\">www.ucd.ie\/research\/people\/englishdramafilm\/drnerysowenwilliams\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/\">melopoeia.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ulli Freer<\/strong> lives and works in London , and has been active over a number of decades. He is a member of the Veer editorial collective. Work has been published in a several magazines including AND, Curtains,Veer Away, Cleave2. Publications include Blvds (Equipage, Cambs), Sandpoles (Equipage, Cambs), Eye Line (Spanner, Hereford ), Speakbright Leap Password (Salt Books, Cambs), Burner (Veer Books, London ), Recovery (Rot Direct, London ).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sophie Robinson<\/strong> was born in 1985. She has an MA in Poetic Practice, and is currently completing a practice-based PhD in Queer Phenomenology and Contemporary Poetry at Royal Holloway. Her first book, a, came out from Les Figues press in 2009. Her work has been included in several anthologies including Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by Women in the UK (Shearsman 2010), Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe 2009) and The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street 2008). In January 2011, she was appointed as poet in residence at the V&amp;A Museum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon Jenner<\/strong> was born in Cuckfield, Sussex on August 31<sup>st<\/sup> 1959.\u00a0\u00a0His British debut,<em> About Bloody Time<\/em>, was published by Waterloo in 2007. Extensive reviews of this volume appeared in<em> Stride<\/em> (Steve Spence),<em> Tears in the Fence 51<\/em> (David Pollard), and <em>PN Review 193<\/em> (Jim Keery). Keery quipped: \u2018And about bloody time too.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He toured Germany 1996\/1997, received a South East Arts Bursary in 1999, Royal Literary Fund grants 2003\/2006 and BBC commissions between 1999 and 2003. He has been Director of ACE-funded Survivors&#8217; Poetry since 2003 and, from 2008-10, was also a Royal Literary Fund Fellow: first, at the University of East London; then Chichester University. His poetry and articles appear in eg. <em>Agenda, Angel Exhaust, PN Review.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A volume extending the imaginative heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) and people he knew like Alistair Crowley was published by Perdika Press, launched at the Portuguese Embassy in June 2010, where he was Poet in the City \u2013 which body have just appointed him Poet in Residence at Hackney County Archive. <em>Wrong Evenings<\/em> was published 2011. A further Waterloo volume is forthcoming in 2012. <em>(Shearsman will publish his complete Pessoa sequence in 2013 \u2013 don\u2019t add this till I confirm from Tony Frazer, who\u2019s so far v positive)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He co-founded Waterloo Pres in 1998 with Sonja Ctvrtecka, who still takes a deep interest in the press. It now has over 50 titles. It received ACE funding in 2004 and again in 2009. Its translations attracted funding from Argentina\u2019s SUR programme, resulting in the launch of four Argentinean volumes, including the great Alejandra Pizarnik.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith Hackwood <\/strong>writes poetry, teaches a bit and is in practice as a Psychosynthesis psychotherapist. He lives in Newport with his partner Helen and son, Kalden and works at the University there. His two books, Charon&#8217;s Hammer and 100 Sonnets are published by PS Avalon<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Pollard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">ELYSIUM GALLERY AT HAY ON WYE JUNE 7th &#8211; 9th<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2018From Purgatory to Paradise\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>elysium gallery<\/strong> is pleased to announce that they will be once again exhibiting (in association with Poetry Jamboree), in Hay-on-Wye during the annual Hay Festival of Literature, 7-9 June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>elysium<\/strong> <strong>gallery<\/strong> has commissioned Anne Price-Owen to curate a site responsive show which features work from the Wales based artists Tim Davies, Craig Wood Jake Whittaker, Nervous Energy and the poet John Powell Ward<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><br \/>\n<em>\u201cFrom Purgatory to Paradise<\/em> in the Salem Chapel culminates in a dynamic interplay between the artists\u2019 interventions which accumulate significance in relation to one another. The exhibition\u2019s theme is entirely congruous with the nature of the artworks in terms of the space, connotations and limitations of the fabric of the building. This complementarity is the crux of the installation: colours, materials and concepts share a contemporary dialogue, that reflects our fears of, and hopes for, the future &#8211; \u00a0whatever, and wherever that might be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Given my abiding passion for text and image, I felt especially complimented when the invitation was to curate an exhibition for elysium gallery, during the Hay Literary FestivaI. The loose association that exists between elysium and Poetry Jamboree was a gift for including a text piece by appropriating John Powell Ward\u2019s Concrete Poetry into the Chapel, thereby creating a concrete link between the Image and the Word.\u201d\u00a0Anne Price-Owen<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><br \/>\nDr Anne Price-Owen <\/strong>is an artist and writer, whose work focuses on text and image. As a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Art &amp; Design, Swansea Metropolitan University, she has written extensively on the visual arts and poetry in Wales, especially the poet-painter David Jones (1895-1974). In her capacity as Director of The David Jones Society which she inaugurated in 1996, she has also curated exhibitions, edits and publishes <em>The David Jones Journal<\/em> and organizes events relating to the literary and visual arts. Latterly, and as a founder member of the <em>Nervous Energy<\/em> collaborative, she has returned to exhibiting works of art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>T<\/strong><strong>im Davies <\/strong>Tim Davies, originally from Pembrokeshire, lives and works in Swansea. Working in a range of media, including installation, sculpture, performative video and two-dimensional processes, his work is held in several public collections, including the Arts Council Collection, London, the British Council, the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and the Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea. He won the Mostyn Open prize in 1999, the Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 2003 and was the only European artist shortlisted for the inaugural Artes Mundi visual arts prize in 2004. In 2011 he represented Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Davies will exhibit his DVD, <em>Wreathmaker II<\/em>(2006), in the Chapel vestry. The natural flowers and plants that the wreathmaker selects contrast sharply with the array of artificial and plastic flowers that are normally displayed in this domesticated space. To compound the residual irony of the installation, the small window overlooks a tiny, overgrown wilderness of a garden, and this entreats further dichotomies with the ordered arrangements of the blooms in the vestry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Wreathmaker<\/em> is the second in a series originally conceived for an exhibition at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Davies chose to respond to the display dedicated to the Physicians of Myddfai. He was interested in playing a counterpoint between the Physicians\u2019 research into the healing properties of local flora and that of the symbolic use of flowers at a time of loss. The film is a real-time document of a usually hidden process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdaviesartist.com\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">www.timdaviesartist.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Craig Wood<\/strong> is an internationally acclaimed artist who is constantly experimenting with materials and techniques in response to the site\/gallery conditions where his work entitled <em>No Place <\/em>is to be installed, in the alcove on the north side of the chapel. Wood writes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cUtopia is a term invented by Sir Thomas More as a title for his book of 1516; consisting of the Greek term &#8216;ou&#8217; &#8211; meaning &#8216;not&#8217; and &#8216;topos&#8217;- meaning &#8216;place&#8217;, literally No Place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The work is inspired by the many Victorian bell jars situated on grave plots within the grounds of Strata Florida in mid Wales. There, as in many graveyards, they contain arrangements of porcelain flowers, along with doves, clasped hands, crosses and other Christian symbols. Some are maintained in pristine condition, but others are strangely poignant through their varying degrees of disintegration or neglect. These tiny ruins reveal the waning memory of a loved one and the diminution of a once powerful belief system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">My contribution to the Hay exhibition is the creation of a new \u2018bell jar\u2019 containing bone china flowers, inspired by the Victorian originals, along with a variety of more contemporary objects. Collectively, this arrangement refers to a broad range of utopian projects, from the on-site religious, through to the scientific, the political, the architectural and the consumerist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Thus, the contents reflect our evolving values and our shifting, arguably stalled, quest for the ideal. Undeniably nostalgic, the work also references the futuristic aesthetic of space stations or the Eden Project. The jar protects and nurtures these cultures within a tiny, fragile eco system. Although bone china may allude to our mortality and the death of Utopia, the work also commemorates idealistic thinking and suggests that their No Place may lie in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinwales.250x.com\/ArtistsWo.htm\">http:\/\/www.artinwales.250x.com\/ArtistsWo.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Jacob Whittaker<\/strong>, a video artist who seeks to impress the work\u2019s processes on the spectator as well as the connotations that the images engender in the viewer, will exhibit <em>Proses y Perierin Teithio\u2019r Bargod\/ The Pilgrim\u2019s Process<\/em>(2011), on the chapel\u2019s east wall above the inscription \u2018God is Love\u2019. The slow rhythm of the \u2018pilgrim\u2019s\u2019 steps as he wades through the river Bargod, together with the swishing sounds of the fast flowing water as it eddies and tumbles over stones, resonate a sense of tranquillity and a meditative ethos. But the hardship he endures may also elicit fond memories that are often tinged with loss and a sense of grief. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobwhittaker.co.uk\">www.jacobwhittaker.co.uk<\/a> <a href=\"mailto:jakewhittaker@hotmail.com\">jakewhittaker@hotmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user887704\/videos\/page:6\/sort:newest\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user887704\/videos\/page:6\/sort:newest<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Nervous Energy is <\/strong>a group of 4 women who collaborate on themes that interrogate \u2018wo\u2019mankind\u2019s position in the world in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century by drawing attention to the (r)evolution of the <strong><em>f<\/em><\/strong><em>(eminine)<\/em> world\u00a0) during the last 5 decades.\u00a0 They will exhibit two pieces. The first, a site-specific piece <em>Fall <\/em>(2012 &#8211; made for this chapel), will complement the River Bargod in Whittaker\u2019s video installation. The flowing fabric engenders perceptions of purity, virginity, the bridal veil, healing &amp; an individual\u2019s life journey until the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Nervous Energy\u2019s other piece,\u00a0<em>Four Queens <\/em>(2011) is to be situated outside the chapel in the small cemetery.<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Four Queens<\/em>, overtly feminine, celebrates the female form and was originally contextualized within the architectural space of a former Victorian laundry.\u00a0 It is\u00a0constructed from ordinary household sheets into an impossibly proportioned corset.\u00a0 The concept is that this echoes the constraints of women throughout the ages, whilst addressing the dilemma of the modern woman\u2019s personal shape and identity within todays still male dominated society and particularly as portrayed in the media. The corset, will surround the only tomb in the graveyard protected by railings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">It is hoped that the incongruously situated corset will attract the attention of visitors to the Hay Festival and encourage the intrigued literati to visit the exhibition whilst making reference to those who, in the main, tend to the graves of the departed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Anne Price-Owen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smu.ac.uk\/research\">www.smu.ac.uk\/research<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Chris Bird-Jones <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smu.ac.uk\/glass\">www.smu.ac.uk\/glass<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Ann Jordan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annjordan-art.co.uk\">www.annjordan-art.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Brenda Oakes\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/axisweb.org\/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=4196\">http:\/\/axisweb.org\/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=4196<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The poet <strong>John Powell Ward<\/strong> will exhibit a portfolio of his concrete poetry entitled \u00a0<em>Poetry &amp; Type, <\/em>and will participate in \u00a0the Hay Poetry Jamboree 2012. <em>Poetry &amp; Type <\/em>has been shown previously at the Cardiff, Kent &amp; Aldeburgh Literary Festivals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Powell is an Honorary Lecturer at Swansea University and lives in Suffolk and on the Gower.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Ward\u2019s poetry has been extensively published and he is a critic and broadcaster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaturewales.org\/writers-of-wales\/i\/129833\/desc\/ward-john-powell\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">http:\/\/www.literaturewales.org\/writers-of-wales\/i\/129833\/desc\/ward-john-powell\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Private View | Golwg Breifat<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Thursday 7th June, 6.30 &#8211; 8.30PM | Iau 7fed Mehefin, 6.30 &#8211; 8.30YP<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Exhibition continues until Saturday 9th June | Arddangosfa yn parhau tan Sadwrn 9fed Mehefin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Open Thursday &#8211; Saturday 10.30 &#8211; 5.30pm | Amserau agor Iau &#8211; Sadwrn 10.30 &#8211; 5.50yp<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Admission free | Mynediad yn rhad ac am ddim<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>FRIENDS OF THE POETRY JAMBOREE 2012<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Become a Friend of the Poetry Jamboree 2012<\/strong>, <strong>and simultaneously advertise your wares, your books, your business, your projects, your thoughts or simply yourself, on the webpage, (or not, if you&#8217;d prefer) by sending us a cheque for either ten, fifteen or twenty pounds, according to the following scheme:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> \u00a310 to have your name listed on the Jamboree web-page, with up to 30 words of biography\/bibliography (or any other kind of textual utterance).<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u00a315\tfor a textual entry of up to 60 words on the web-page. Plus, choose a free cd of one of many performances from the previous three Jamborees (see below for details.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u00a320\tfor a paragraph of up to 200 words on the web-page with web-links, logos, graphics where possible, plus the option of a choice of free cd from the list below.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Please send a cheque made out to Glasfryn Seminars, to Lyndon Davies, Glasfryn, Llangattock, Nr Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1PH with letter listing your name, address and choice of cd where applicable.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Send details for inclusion on webpage to goodbard@yahoo.co.uk<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>List of available recordings:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Peter Finch 2009,\u00a0Boiled String 2009,\u00a0Wendy Mulford 2009,\u00a0John James 2009,\u00a0Chris Torrance 2009,\u00a0David Greenslade 2009,\u00a0Childe Roland 2010,\u00a0Geraldine Monk 2010,\u00a0Alan Halsey 2010, Elisabeth Bletsoe 2010,\u00a0Robert Minhinnick 2010,\u00a0Allen Fisher 2011,\u00a0Ralph Hawkins 2011,\u00a0Carol Watts 2011,\u00a0Sean Bonney 2011,\u00a0Kelvin Corcoran 2011,\u00a0Maggie O&#8217;Sullivan 2011<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>THE SPONSORS<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Literature Wales<\/strong> is the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Authors.<\/p>\n<p>Literature Wales runs events, courses, competitions, including the Cardiff International Poetry Competition, with the support of Cardiff Council and offering a First Prize of \u00a35000, conferences, tours by authors, lectures, international exchanges, events for schools, readings, literary performances and festivals. Academi is also responsible for the National Poet of Wales project and the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Literature Wales:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\">post@literaturewales.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>029 2047 2266<\/p>\n<p><strong>Swansea University College of Arts and Humanities\/CREW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales<\/p>\n<p>CREW was established to co-ordinate postgraduate research in an area of study that has grown in importance in the light of the creation of a separate Welsh Assembly.  The cultural distinctiveness of Wales was, for 1,500 years, intrinsically bound up with the Welsh language and its outstanding literary tradition centring on Barddas, a rich body of strict metre writing unique to Wales. But the twentieth-century saw the emergence not only of English as a \u201cmajority\u201d Welsh language but also a literature in English that was the product of an anglophone yet distinctively Welsh culture.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre is also home to the David Parry Archive of materials relating to the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects, an unique resource for dialectologists and socio-linguists that attracts scholarly researchers from Continental Europe. The Centre is supported by major specialist library holdings that equal any outside of the National Library of Wales. Its MA programme was singled out for special commendation in a recent Teaching Quality Assessment exercise, and external assessors have praised the innovation and high quality of the postgraduate work it has produced.<\/p>\n<p>CREW is also leading on the Bibliography of Welsh Literature in English Translation, a major Art and Humanities Research Board project. The online version was completed in 2003 and the printed version in 2005.  Other projects include hosting The Encyclopaedia of Wales (a two-year Lottery-Funded project) and a website that focuses on Welsh writers in English. The Centre has produced over 30 publications in recent years and members of the Centre have also participated at several conferences.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1965, Poetry Wales is a quarterly magazine with an international reputation for excellent poems, features and reviews from Wales and beyond. Emerging from a rich bilingual culture, Poetry Wales explores the diverse perspectives of Welsh poetry in English and its international relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Its interest in translation, and in local and national identities in a global context, are at the forefront of some of the most exciting developments in poetry today. The magazine is open to tradition and experiment, publishing poetry from a wide range of approaches. Against this background of dynamic contrast, it offers a lively and informed critical context for the best contemporary writers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poetry Wales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1965, Poetry Wales is a quarterly magazine with an international reputation for excellent poems, features and reviews from Wales and beyond. Emerging from a rich bilingual culture, Poetry Wales explores the diverse perspectives of Welsh poetry in English and its international relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Its interest in translation, and in local and national identities in a global context, are at the forefront of some of the most exciting developments in poetry today. The magazine is open to tradition and experiment, publishing poetry from a wide range of approaches. Against this background of dynamic contrast, it offers a lively and informed critical context for the best contemporary poetry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\">www.poetrywales.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Waterloo Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Waterloo Press offers readers an eclectic list of some of the most inventive and stimulating poetry from the UK and abroad. Our beautifully designed books include lost modernist classics, translations of senior international poets and vibrant collections by the most distinctive and striking younger poets around.<\/p>\n<p>Waterloo Press brings radical and marginalised voices to the fore, mirroring the aesthetic value of their work in outstanding book design, including dust jackets; and original artwork for the covers. With its diverse and growing list, Waterloo Press breaks down the borders between contemporary schools of poetry, to forge a new poetics based on respect for craft, innovation and the challenge of real communication.<\/p>\n<p>Its titles have always attracted excellent critical responses, and have recently garnered laurels including a PBS Recommendation, and shortlisting in the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterloopresshove.co.uk\/\">www.waterloopresshove.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elysium Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elysium Gallery is an artist\/volunteer run space that is committed to exhibiting and promoting the work of emerging Wales based and Wales educated artists (of all medias) whilst continuing to make links with the national arts scene.<\/p>\n<p>As a gallery it strives to provide support for new artists and art organisations as well as encouraging pride and participation in local visual and performing arts in an environment that promotes experimentation, freedom and appreciation in all creative practices.<\/p>\n<p>This helps to regenerate and create interest in the large gap between emerging and established artists, whilst continuing to strengthen and promote the Swansea arts scene.<\/p>\n<p>31 Cradock Street,<\/p>\n<p>Swansea,<\/p>\n<p>Wales,<\/p>\n<p>SA1 3EP.<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 07980 &#8211; 925 449              email: info@elysiumgallery.com<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/\">www.elysiumgallery.com\/joom\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arts Alive Wales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arts Alive Wales is a charitable company based in rural South Powys.\u00a0 We create opportunities for people of all ages to take part in high quality arts activities led by creative professionals both at our venue in Crickhowell and elsewhere in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Over a period of more than 20 years, Arts Alive Wales has earned a reputation for the quality of its work in the visual and applied arts. This remains the foundation of a wide-ranging programme of activities, both at our Crickhowell venue and in the community,\u00a0that now regularly includes the performing and literary arts.<\/p>\n<p>The Arts Alive Wales ethos is to work in collaboration not only with arts practitioners but with organisations and individuals in the public and third sectors, to conceive and deliver activities that reflect our values and help us to achieve our objectives.\u00a0\u00a0To maximise our impact,\u00a0our programme is organised on a thematic basis, focusing on Arts and Health and Arts and the Environment.<\/p>\n<p>Arts Alive Wales\u00a0works with over 60 freelance professional artists, craftspeople, performers, writers and musicians.\u00a0 Our practitioners\u00a0have a wide range of skills and experience in community, education and health settings. We have an established reputation for our work with children and young people. We work with all ages and abilities on collaborative community art projects \u2013 indoors and out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsalivewales.org.uk\/\">www.artsalivewales.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>THE TEAM<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Lyndon Davies<\/strong> was born and brought up in Cardiff, but currently lives in Powys. His first collection of poems Hyphasis, was published by Parthian in 2006. His second book, Shield, (Parthian) came out in May 2010. He co-runs the Glasfryn Seminars, a series of discussion groups on contemporary literature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Goodby<\/strong>&#8216;s most recent books of poetry are uncaged sea (Waterloo, 2008),  Wine Night White (Hafan, 2010), and Illennium (Shearsman, 2010). His second full-length collection, A True Prize, is forthcoming from Cinnamon in 2011. He won Cardiff International (2006) and the New Welsh Review (2009) poetry competitions, and used the prize money to found and run the experimental poetry performance troupe Boiled String. He has also published translations of Heine&#8217;s Germany: A Winter&#8217;s Tale (Smokestack, 2005, the Algerian poet Adel Guemar&#8217;s State of Emergency (Arc, 2007) (with Tom Cheesman), and No Soy Tu Musa \/ I&#8217;m Not Your Muse (Torremozas, 2009) (with Carlota Caulfield), an anthology of Irish women&#8217;s poetry translated into Spanish. His day job is as a lecturer in the English Department at Swansea University, and in this capacity his research interests include Dylan Thomas, the poetry of the 1940s, and Irish poetry since Yeats.<\/p>\n<p>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<\/p>\n<p>Huge thanks are due to the following:<\/p>\n<p>Geoff Evans at Oriel Contemporary Arts for providing the venue and supporting the venture from the start.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Parfitt<\/p>\n<p>Graham Hartill (see Friends page)<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Twigg, poet, painter, musician, for his wonderful hospitality in providing space in house and garden for readers, guests and yurts.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Groves, journalist, ex-BBC radio news and arts-programme producer. 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