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Come to our next poet-fabulous reading Sunday, 20 June, 2pm at our new venue, the Old Orleans (Church St, Cardiff), featuring JOHN GOODBY and ALAN KELLERMANN!
JOHN GOODBY’s most recent books of poetry are uncaged sea (Waterloo, 2008), Wine Night White (Hafan, 2010) and Illennium (Shearsman, 2010), with A True Prize (Cinnamon, 2011) forthcoming. He won the Cardiff International poetry competition in 2006 and the New Welsh Review poetry competition in 2009 and is a co-organiser of the annual Hay Poetry Jamboree.
ALAN KELLERMANN, born in Wisconsin (USA), is working towards a PhD at Swansea University in Swansea, Wales, where he is on the Swansea Review editorial board. Among other publications, his work has appeared in Planet, Agenda, Poetry Ireland Review, and in the Nu: Fiction and Stuff anthology (Parthian).
You are welcome to share up to 2 poems at our popular Open Mic. Limited number of places, so be quick to ensure yourself a slot or you can try your luck at our Open Mic Lucky Dip!
Come and read in our lovely new venue at the Old Orleans, or simply relax with a beer and hear the words flow! Bring your friends and come join us for another fun Sunday soon.
£4 entry or £2 for open mic readers
Supported by Academi
WIN PRIZES
Sign up to the Open Mic and you could win
- a tea caddy from Waterloo Gardens Teahouse
- a copy of Carole Burns’s Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between
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