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The Second Annual Condry Festival
Nature and Outdoor Writing at its Finest

Saturday 17 October 2009
Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth

Morning session 10.00 am - 1.00 pm
Chaired by John Vidal, Environment Editor, the Guardian

10.00 am - 10.20 am - Opening address.

10.20 am - 11.00 am - Wonder and the Work of Mary Oliver: Professor Ian Gregson discusses the work of one of America’s best-selling poets and considers the significance of nature poetry in the 21st Century.

11.00 am - 11.30 am - Coffee break

11.30 am - 12.30 pm - The Country Diary: John Vidal talks to Paul Evans and Jim Perrin about the longest-running daily column in British journalism.

Afternoon session 2.00 pm - 6.00 pm 
Chaired by Jon Gower

2.00 pm - 3.00 pm - The Annual William Condry Memorial Lecture on Nature and The Welsh Tradition, delivered by Professor Gwyn Thomas, followed by questions and discussion.

3.00 pm - 4.30 pm - Nature and Poetry: readings and panel with Gillian Clarke, Ian Gregson and Damian Walford Davies.

4.30 pm - 5.00 pm - Tea break

5.00 pm - 6.00 pm - Nature and the City Boy, Crumpsall to Connemara: Mike Harding talks about his journey from the cobbled streets of industrial Manchester to
his house in the West of Ireland, via the wild places of the world.

6:00 pm - Join Coch-y-Bonddu books for the launch of A Portrait of Machynlleth
and its surroundings (translated by Nicholas Fenwick). Free event – no ticket required.

Evening session 7.30 pm - 9.00 pm 
Chaired by Andrew Green of the National Library of Wales

7.30 pm - 9.00 pm - A Wilderness World: lecture/audio-visual presentation by Cameron
McNeish, broadcaster, writer and editor of The Great Outdoors magazine, followed by questions and summing-up.

Tickets are available from the Tabernacle on: 01654 703355

Or the National Library of Wales: 01970 632 548

Or on line at: www.llgc.org.uk/drwm