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 […]