Penned on the Bont

Open Mic Event

Contact: 01656 815 717/ bridgend.tc@bridgend.gov.uk

It's that time already for the next instalment of Penned on the Bont at Carnegie House (the Old Library) in Bridgend and the last Penned on the Bont for 2016, featuring the multi award winning, bilingual Bloodaxe poet Menna Elfyn and our internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning Bridgend poet Robert Minhinnick, PLUS OPEN MIC!!!

Bits and bobs are as follows:

PENNED ON THE BONT @ CARNEGIE HOUSE, BRIDGEND
Thursday 24 November 2016
Time: 7.30PM
Address: Wyndham Street, Bridgend, CF31 1EF
Featuring: Menna Elfyn & Robert Minhinnick PLUS OPEN MIC, hosted by Rhian Edwards
Admission: £4
Contact: 01656 815 717/ bridgend.tc@bridgend.gov.uk
Web: www.carnegiehouse.co.uk

Menna Elfyn:

Menna Elfyn (b.1952) is an award-winning poet and playwright who writes with passion of the Welsh language and identity.

She is the best known and most translated of all modern Welsh-language poets. Author of over 20 books of poetry including Aderyn Bach Mewn Llaw (1990), winner of a Welsh Arts Council Prize; the bilingual Eucalyptus: Detholiad o Gerddi / Selected Poems 1978-1994 from Gomer and her previous collection, Cell Angel (1996) from Bloodaxe, children’s novels and educational books, numerous stage, radio and television plays, she has also written libretti for US and UK composers.

In 1999, she co-wrote ‘Garden of Light’, a choral symphony for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra which was performed at the Lincoln Centre in New York. She received a Creative Arts Award in 2008 to write a book on ‘Sleep’. Menna is Director of the Masters Programme in Creative Writing at Trinity University, Carmarthen and is Literary Fellow at Swansea University. In April 2010, Sunflowers in your Eyes, an anthology of four Zimbabwean women poets edited by Elfyn, will appear from Cinnamon Press. In 2009, she was awarded the International Anima Istranza Foreign Prize for Poetry in Sardinia.

When not travelling the world for readings or television work and theatre productions, she lives in Llandysul.

Robert Minhinnick:

Robert Minhinnick published 'The Adulterer’s Tongue’ from Carcanet in 2004, his translations into English of six contemporary Welsh language poets, including Menna Elfyn. His ‘Diary of the Last Man’, due from Carcanet in 2017, contains a section devoted to translation from Welsh, Arabic and Turkish poetry. He lives in Porthcawl.

Robert Minhinnick (b. 1952) is a writer and environmentalist; his book Watching the Fire Eater, which combined these interests, was named Welsh Book of the Year in 1993. He has received a John Morgan award for his prose, Gregory and Cholmondeley awards for his poetry, two Arts Council of Wales Literature Prizes, and has won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem twice, for 'Twenty Five Laments for Iraq' and 'The Fox in the National Museum of Wales'.

Robert was the long-standing editor of Poetry Wales, and founded both Friends of the Earth Cymru (Wales) and Sustainable Wales.

ALSO BYOB, AS WE HAVE NO LIQUOR LICENSE. THERE IS ALSO FREE TEA & COFFEE

All the best

Rhian

Price: £4.00

Time: 7:30pm