There’s a double-bill of great writers at the next Cellar Bards in Cardigan on Friday, February 28th  — and for one night only, a change of venue.

Topping the bill are poets Kittie Belltree and Susie Wild, and open mic spots will be available as usual.

Doors and the bar open at 7.45pm, at Quay Street Studios, 23 Quay Street, Cardigan SA43 1HU, just three doors down the street from the usual venue, the Cellar Bar. Entry is £3.

Kittie, who lives in St Dogmaels and teaches at Aberystwyth University, has just had her debut collection of poetry –

Sliced Tongue and Pearl Cufflinks – published by Parthian Books. In her book she explores fractured connections of self, family and home. At the heart of these poems are a daughter’s fraught relationships with a mother who grew up in National Socialist Germany and her half-Japanese father, who survived three years as a POW in Czechoslovakia. These dark themes are counterbalanced by moments of comical absurdity and delightful domestic chaos. Kittie has been highly commended in the Welsh International Poetry Competition, the PENfro Poetry Festival Competition, The Camden and Lumen Poetry Competition and the Orbis Readers Award, among many other accolades.

Susie Wild is poetry editor of Parthian Books.  Her second collection of poetry, Windfalls, is forthcoming from Parthian. She is the author of Better Houses (her debut poetry collection, 2017), The Art of Contraception and Arrivals. She has performed at many festivals including Glastonbury, Hay Festival, Cardiff Contemporary, Green Man, The Laugharne Weekend, The Dylan Weekend and Dinefwr. She lives in Cardiff and is an occasional chanteuse with The Wildsmiths.

Open mic spots are always available at The Cellar Bards, Cardigan’s only regular spoken word event. The Bards welcome writers of poetry, short stories, micro-fiction and novels, we like a song or two as well  (max five minutes each reader). People who want to read can put their names down at the door on the night. Or go along to listen to the wonderful work of Kittie Belltree and Susie Wild, plus a variety of spoken word performances from the talented regulars.