Recording of the conversations held on 14 February 2024 in Porthcawl - part of Climate Clever Conversations.
Read MoreRichard Price "Free Verse" (Seren) January 2024
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Celebrating Seren's Free Verse’, in honour of RICHARD PRICE born 300 years ago. With PHIL COPE & others.
Also we remember Alan Perry.
Duncan Bush Uncollected Poems November 2023
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New Work September 2023 Angela Graham, Phil Cope, Robert Minhinnick and open mic
Green Room from September 2023, with open mic contibutions.
79MB AAC m4a file.
Zoë Brigley at the Green Room December 2019
Zoë Brigley at the Green Room and post 2019 election open mic. Hosted by Robert Minhinnick.
Read MoreHilary Llewellyn-Williams at the Green Room June 2023
The Green Room welcomes Hilary Llewellyn-Williams (former patron of Sustainable Wales) and participating readers such as Phil Cope, Kristian Evans, Gerry Ray and Paul Woodford. Introduced and hosted by Robert Minhinnick. This is the last Green Room before the summer break in July and August. The Green Room returns in September 2023.
Read MoreAngela Graham, Phil Cope at the Green Room February 2023
Angela Graham & Phil cope read at the Green Room February 2023.
Read MoreLaura Wainwright and Kristian Evans read new works January 2023
Laura Wainwright and Kristian Evans
Read MoreRobert Minhinnick - Delirium Launch Event
Launch event for Robert Minhinnick’s latest work Delirium. Recorded at the Stage Door, Grand Pavilion Porthcawl.
Karen Gemma Brewer At the Green Room
Celebration of artist Paul Peter Piech October 2022
Introduced by Robert Minhinnick. Norman Harris, Phil Cope and Peter Finch remember the graphic designer, Paul Peter Piech.
Peter Finch at the Green Room during the Elvis Festival Sept 2022
Peter Finch returns to the Green Room at the start of the Porthcawl Elvis Festival.
Zoë Brigley, Kristian Evans, Laura Wainwright and Robert Minhinnick at the Green Room June 2022
Zoë Brigley, Kristian Evans, Laura Wainwright and Robert Minhinnick at the Green Room 24 June 2022
Introduced by Robert Minhinnick
Laura Wainwright at the Green Room March 2022
Laura Wainwright reads at the Green Room 25th March 2022. Laura Wainwright is from Newport, South Wales. Her poems have been published and are forthcoming in a range of magazines, journals and anthologies. Laura was shortlisted in the Bridport Prize poetry competition in 2013 and 2019, and awarded a Literature Wales Writers' Bursary in 2020 to finish her first collection.
Read Laura Wainwright’s Newport Journal.
Coffi Culture with Robert Minhinnick, Sampurna Chattarji, Christopher Meredith & Elen jones
As part of fairtrade fortnight 2022 Choose the World You Want Festival
Coffi Culture
Podcast of the online event Sunday 6th March 11am - also available on YouTube
Introduced by Elen Jones of Jeniphers’ Coffi. Featuring writers Robert Minhinnick, Chris Meredith and Sampurna Chattarji reading from India. Readings from Gorwelion Shared Horizons and discussion.
Gorwelion Launch event Phil Cope, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and Robert Minhinnick
Our own ‘Green Room’ will be the venue for the first launches, featuring Phil Cope, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and Robert Minhinnick on Friday, November 5th, 8pm see our Events pages for more information. A video of this is available on our YouTube channel.
The Green Room Podcast Josephine's Rain (2018 remix)
‘Josephine’s Rain’ is a thirty minute evocation of a storm that damaged Porthcawl in 1995. Tropical storm ‘Josephine’ was close to hurricane status, sinking boats and destroying part of the seafront.
Performed and written by Robert Minhinnick, Richard Thomas & Peter Morgan.
Josephine’s Rain has been performed at many events over the years; some hosted by the Green Room.
A video version is available on our YouTube channel.
“In a recent film for ‘Sustainable Wales’ I say that Babylon fell because of social inequality and that our culture is threatened by the same thing. That’s not to mention ‘climate change’ at all. But I’ve written the words for ‘Josephine’s Rain’, a depiction of a storm that hit Porthcawl in the 1990s. It evokes a hurricane and is bloody loud, with guitar, keyboard, percussion. In the last performance we had an artist on stage creating a painting during the thirty minute performance. Very 1960s.”
Robert Minhinnick Wales Arts Review
The Green Room Podcast Live music from the Launch of Diary of the Last Man
Live performances at the launch event for Diary of the Last Man. Robert Minhinnick reads with musical accompaniment.
The Green Room Podcast book launches from Happenstance
Poet and editor of HappenStance press Nell Nelson travels from Fife to Porthcawl to launch two new books by Welsh poets.
'Unleaving' is the first collection of poems by Kristian Evans, and 'Pattern Beyond Chance', by Stephen Payne
The Green Room Podcast Launch event of Robert Minhinnick's Diary of the Last Man
Launch event from 2017 of Robert Minhinnick’s Diary of the Last Man https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784103484
Wales Book of the Year 2018
Winner of the 2018 Roland Mathias Poetry Award
Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize
“The opening poem sequence, 'Diary of the Last Man', sets the tone for Robert Minhinnick's book, a celebration of the dwindling Earth, an elegy, a caution. His Wales is a touchstone; other landscapes and cityscapes are tried against it, with its erratic weather, its sudden changes of mood, 'a black tonic'. The sequence remembers all the geographies of his earlier work, old and new world, but now unpeopled and the lonely spirit free to go anywhere, do anything, but meaning with mankind has drained away. Yet still alive, and still with language, registering. The rest of the book is filled with voices: of children, of rivers, terrorists, magicians; and voices translated from the Welsh, and from Turkish and Arabic, shared, enriching with their difference, their other worlds. History washes over and washes up on the strand of this Welsh book. It is seen and recognised, it begins to be transformed. In the long concluding poem, 'The Sand Orchestra', the poet returns to his own voice, and to the voice of a Bechstein piano abandoned in the open air, played now by nature, its winds and sand. The last man, who has been looking for Ulysses, is the very man he has been looking for.”