The Writers of Wales Database

JONES, MAB

Website: http://www.mabjones.com/

Mab is a poet, comic, writer and performer. She won Academi's John Tripp Spoken Poetry Audience Award in 2007 and was a semi-finalist in the Funny Women and Radio 4 National Poetry Slam competitions. Mab is a performer who places emphasis on entertainment and audience enjoyment. She has supported many well-known poets and comics, amongst them John Hegley, Lucy Porter, Tony Law, and Joolz Denby. Funny and touching by turns, her work veers from the delightfully playful to the outrageously naughty; witty, satirical, saucy, dark at times, but always lively and infused with a sparkly sense of fun.

Mab has performed all around the UK, as well as in Japan and America at company parties, music festivals, after dinner events, comedy nights, burlesque revues, literary evenings and charity galas. She has read in pubs, theatres, night clubs, high class hotels, on a milk float, in a yurt, in a manor house, in a priory and on a double decker bus.

She writes for satirical Cardiff magazine The Cheek, has had a play performed in the Wales Millenium Centre (August 2009), has run poetry workshops in schools, prisons and in the general community, and ran the 'Eroticake & Tea' writing group. She also organises spoken word events in Cardiff under the Jam Bones banner (see http://www.jambones.webs.com/ for more details).

Mab represented Wales at the prestigious Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC (Summer 2008), and has featured on BBC Wales, Radio 4, and ITV television. Her first book, Welsh Wool, is out later this year.

Reviews:
With respect to her performance poetry

"…Hilarious..."
The Western Mail

"...Excellent..."
Metro

"...A real creative force.."
Evening Post

"...Fantastic!..."
Frank Hennessy, BBC Radio Wales

"...Delightful comic verse, articulate and imaginative..."
Three Weeks


Selected Publications:
Welsh Wool (forthcoming)