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Book Launch, Cardiff, Gemma June Howell, Ifor Thomas, J.Brookes, Mab Jones, Mark Blayney, Nick Fisk, Peter Finch, poetry, Rhys Owain Williams, Spoken Word, Square, Susie Wild, Topher Mills -

Here are some of a selection of great photos taken by Simon Oconnor of the poetry extravaganza recent Cardiff launch event for J. Brookes' new and selected poems. Featuring a plethora of names from the very well established to the emerging on the Cardiff Spoken Word Scene, with a wonderful plentiful audience to boot, much fun was had. Here's a selection:   See the album in full on Facebook Find out more about J. Brookes  

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Awards, Ironopolis, Longlisted, Portico Prize -

Glen James Brown’s epic Northern novel is on a roll this year, with another prestigious longlisting – this time The Portico Prize. Having recently made it onto the shortlist of the inaugural Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, we’re thrilled to see Ironopolis gaining even more much-deserved praise.

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2019, Events, News, Slovak Literature, Translation -

This year marks 30 years since the Velvet Revolution of Slovakia, and 26 since it gained independence. In the UK, much of Slovakia's rich and fascinating culture remains untapped, and we agree that this needs changing. Having published Uršuľa Kovalyk’s brilliant collection The Night Circus and other stories earlier this year, we are thrilled to take part in a UK-wide events programme celebrating Slovak arts and literature.

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Cardiff, Events, News, Poetry -

There was a great feature on J.Brookes' Selected Poems: Hymns Ancient & Modern in the Western Mail on Saturday. Here are some of his answers for the piece:  Tell me a bit about how and why you became a poet? 'In the 50s my father had an EP record called Red Bird, the poems of Christopher Logue, read by the poet to the jazz of the Tony Kinsey Quintet, and these, titles like "Drunk as drunk on Turpentine" and "Blue Shoes" seemed very exciting and beautiful. Then, later, when I was a teen, "The Mersey Sound", a collection by Adrien...

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Book Launch, Cardiff MADE, Hey Bert, Kittie Belltree, News, Parthian Books, Poems, poets, Roberto Pastore, Sliced Tongues -

We've so many great poetry titles coming to you this autumn! I can't wait to introduce you to these two first full collections! Please join us in Cardiff for the launch of Hey Bert by Roberto Pastore and Sliced Tongue and Pearl Cufflinks by Kittie Belltree. I love Cardiff MADE so much I got married there earlier this year, and the event is free to you all, with some free wine and then an open cafe bar for the evening. 9 October, 7.30pm, Cardiff MADE, 41 Lochaber St, Cardiff CF24 3LS (Arrive at 7 for a 7.30 ish start of readings and...

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