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.”
Georgia, Robert Minhinnick and Tom Anderson at the Green Room
The Green Room Podcast Georgia Carys Williams (excerpt)
Find out more at https://www.georgiacaryswilliams.com/
The Green Room Podcast Christopher Cornwell
Christopher Cornwell reading in 2018 at the Green Room - “Ergasy”
The Green Room Podcast Frances Presley
The Green Room Podcast Jo Mazelis
J Mazelis readings from Significance. Jo Mazelis is a Welsh author. Her 2014 novel Significance was awarded the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2015. Her short story collections have been short- or long-listed for prizes, including Wales Book of the Year.
The Green Room Podcast Steve Griffiths
Steve Griffiths reads from his Late Love Poems. https://stevegriffithspoet.com/books/late-love-poems/ from 2015.
The Green Room Podcast Frank O'Connor - Haiku
Haiku evening at the Green room. Frank O’Connor reads his haiku… Frank, a previous chair of sustainable Wales 2003-07 is director of the global design agency anois
The Green Room Podcast Helena Nelson 2014
Helena Nelson (Nell Nelson) is the originator and editor of HappenStance Press as well as a poet in her own right. Her first Rialto collection Starlight on Water was a Jerwood/Aldeburgh First Collection winner. Her second was Plot and Counterplot from Shoestring Press. She also writes and publishes light verse - Down With Poetry! Wikipedia article. Happenstance press site. Soundcloud recordings.
Recorded May 2014.
The Green Room Podcast Rhian Edwards 2014
Rhian Edwards reads at the Green Room March 2014. Rhian is a multi-award winning poet. Her first collection of poems Clueless Dogs (Seren 2012) won Wales Book of the Year 2013, the Roland Mathias Prize for Poetry 2013 and Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice 2013. It was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2012.
Rhian’s second full collection The Estate Agent’s Daughter (Seren 2020) is due for publication in June 2020 and can be pre-ordered now.
Rhian also has two pamphlets of poems Parade the Fib, (Tall-Lighthouse 2008), which was awarded the Poetry Book Society Choice for autumn 2008. Brood (Seren 2017) is an illustrated pamphlet of bird poems, containing beautiful and original charcoal magpie drawings by artist Paul Edwards.
Rhian is also the current winner of the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry, winning both the Judges and Audience award. She was also the first Writer in Residence at Aberystwyth Arts Centre from March to June 2013.
Rhian’s poems have appeared in the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, New Statesman, Spectator, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Arete, Prague Revue, the London Magazine, Stand, Planet Magazine, the New Welsh Review and the Lampeter Review.
Rhian is a poet and musician and has delivered over 400 stage, radio and festival performances world-wide. She lives in South Wales with her daughter Megan.