I want to do more to support local causes this year, so I’ve decided to do the Llandudno Sea Triathlon on Sunday 5th July 2015 to raise money for Saith Seren in Wrecsam. Dwi am wneud mwy i gefnogi achosion lleol eleni, felly dwi wedi penderfynu gwneud Triathlon Môr Llandudno ddydd Sul, Gorffennaf 5ed 2015, […]
I was honoured to be invited by Poetry Wales editor and co-curator of Gelynion/Enemies, Nia Davies, to be part of the Bangor event. The Enemies Project is the brainchild of Steven J Fowler, a talented and prolific poet who is also one of the loveliest people I’ve met in the poetry world.
Years ago I met multi-lingual concrete poet Peter Meilleur (Childe Roland) at his home in Llangollen and it had a profound affect on my work. Up until that point I wrote satirical, witty, political slam-style poems. I won the Bangor Poetry Slam in 2008 with a poem called Armchair Anarchy, but the genre was beginning to […]
The Sgwad Sgwennu Oriel Wrecsam pilot scheme is now complete. 22 children from primary schools across Wrecsam were offered the unique opportunity to attend a series of writing masterclasses with visiting writers from Cymru.
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht in a translation by John Willett Revised by Ed Thomas Lyrics revised by Dafydd James and Ed Thomas Director: John E McGrath It’s Monday afternoon and I’m driving down to Merthyr Tydfil from Wrecsam for the press night of National Theatre Wales’ new adaptation of Brecht’s Mother Courage […]
The current political climate in the UK is depressing. Slightly less so in Cymru and Scotland but I, and a number of friends, are still struggling to come to terms with the 2015 election results. I wanted to do something in response to this, and I foresee marching at various points in the future, but […]