Laura Wainwright’s New Territories in Modernism comes from UWP. A collaboration with Robert Minhinnick featuring poetry and artwork, 2025 from Seventh Quarry Press. 'The Storm’s Flora' is her first Seren title. On sale at SUSSED.

Kristian Evans is a poet, editor and environmental campaigner living in Bridgend. His film, made from “the perspective of a runaway” is created by Nathan Roach. ‘Duneland: Life in the Kenfig Coastal Sand' is due from Seren.

Modron Magazine - Kristian Evans, Founding Editor.

30th January Friday at 8pm; above SUSSED James St., Porthcawl CF36 3BG

Tracey Rhys returns to the Green Room

All welcome, BYOB, £5 entry - all proceeds support Sustainable Wales.

Readings and RSPB talk:

7pm Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at ‘Le Pub’, 19, High St., NEWPORT NP20 1FW.

The next Green Room will be on the 28th November from 8pm above SUSSED as usual.

Robert Minhinnick

“My Life and Times: Memories of Penyfai” is Ivor Thomas’s description of a tiny south Wales village.

Ivor was my grandfather, and his book, published by Culture & Democracy Press, is launched in the Garden Room, Court Colman Manor, Pen-y-fai, Bridgend CF31 4NG, 7.30pm, Wednesday, April 23rd 2025. 

Entry £5, which ensures a copy of this astonishing memoir. Otherwise £10. On sale in SUSSED.

Gardener, miner, rugby-player, Labour councilor, social activist, the centre of much of his life was ‘The Tavern’, the vanished village pub, where he was born. Ivor continues to be an enormous influence on my writing and environmental work.

This memoir, of a man who was born, died and buried in the same street, flares like a firework.

Readings by myself and others of Ivor’s family, with members of Bridgend Writers’ Circle, whose energy has created this event. Music and song from Laura Wainwright, in the gorgeous surroundings of the Garden Room.

EXCITING COLLABORATION -see blog for details

Natalie Ann Holborow is a winner of the Terry Hetherington Award and the Robin Reeves Prize and has been shortlisted and commended for the Bridport Prize, the National Poetry Competition, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the Cursed Murphy Spoken Word Award among others.

Her writing residencies with the British Council, Literature Wales and Kultivera have seen her writing and performing poetry in Wales, Ireland, Sweden and India.

Little Universe is her third full poetry collection. Natalie lives in Swansea, is a proud patron of local charity The Leon Heart Fund, and runs marathons to raise funds.

https://natalieholborow.com/

https://www.instagram.com/natholborow/

The Greenbank, 57 Belle Vue Rd., Easton, BS5 6DP

Poster created by Robert Walton  for Gorwelion

Download the poster (pdf) for printing.

Sept 19th 2024

Beach Clean Group meet Jenipher Sambazi, East Ugandan Coffee producer https://jenipherscoffi.wales/  11.00 am start (meet at SUSSED) then afterwards at around 12.15 meet Jenipher upstairs in the Green Room above SUSSED, CF36 3BG Porthcawl. 

Zoë Brigley is the author of three books of poetry published by Bloodaxe: Hand & Skull (2019), Conquest (2012), and The Secret (2007). All three are UK Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Poems from the collections have won an Eric Gregory Award for the best British poets under 30, have been longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize for the best international writers under 40, and were Forward Prize commended. She became editor for Wales’ leading poetry journal Poetry Wales in 2021, and she is now Poetry Editor for Seren Books jointly with the poet Rhian Edwards.

Kristian Evans is a founding editor of Modron Magazine, which publishes writing on the ecological crisis. He’s the author of pamphlets, Unleaving (2015), and Otherworlds (2021), and with Zoë Brigley edited 100 Poems to Save the Earth (2021), an anthology of contemporary poetry. He was a judge for the Wales Book of the Year Award 2023, and in the same year was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year Award. He lives in Bridgend, south Wales.

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