The Writers of Wales Database

TRIMBLE, RHYS

Email: rhys.trimble@gmail  
Myspace: www.myspace.com/bastardcymraeg / www.sonicport.net

Rhys Trimble is a bilingual poet, improvisational performer and editor from Bethesda and Pontneddfechan. He is interested in heterglossic, psychogeographic, mythic and radical pastoral poetry. Rhys is published widely, including in Angel Exhaust, Poetry Wales, Skald, Tears in the Fence, Aesthetica, Seventh Quarry and elsewhere. He was a John Tripp finalist in 2009 and winner of the Cinnamon Press Collection Competition. Rhys' projects include 'Rhys Trimble & the Badgerboys' - cut-up-on-the-spot poetry over a harp (Ben Stammers) and postrock guitar (Hywel Edwards): see photograph above and click here, and also a recent performance at the Scala, Prestatyn of his poem 'La La Scala'; click here; along with Hywel and Zack De Santos.

Rhys is a Member of Prosiect Datgeiniaith along with Twm Morris, Gwylym Morys, Gareth Siôn and instructor Peter Greenhill - attempting a recreation of medieval syllabic poetry accompanied by 'pastwn' or staff as rhythmic accompaniment.

He is currently variously engaged as self-employed performance-poet, workshopper for adults and children, and occasional corporate light entertainer. Rhys is hoping to learn how to hand-make books and become a PhD student soon. He is editor of the online experimental ezine ctrl+alt+del. Rhys is a Member of The Welsh Academy.

Reviews:
With respect to keinc (Cinnamon Press, 2010)
 
"…a genuine exploration of what it means to write in a bilingual context. Welsh is not used as a decorative peppering in his work… Instead, it forms part of an understanding of place as composed of multiple linguistic trajectories. Trimble’s work is intersecting here with some urgent contemporary issues. This is risk-taking work from a young and still-developing writer that suggests some exciting new directions for poetry in Wales while responding thoughtfully to the past…"
Zoe Skoulding


Selected Publications:
afanc e.p. (Rhys Trimble, 2007)
keinc (Cinnamon Press, 2010)
Kapita (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, 2010)