Pilgrimage and Poetry – workshop.

The day will take place at Prebendal House which is opposite the entrance to Llandaff Cathedral. It will start promptly at 10am and conclude at 4.00pm. Teas and Coffees are available but please bring a packed lunch. Car parking is off Llandaff High Street post code CF5 2EA. There will also be some easy walking on paths so sensible footwear is recommended. Please do bring writing implements and paper. The workshop day is provided by Llandaff Diocese Year of Pilgrimage 2020 group and is free of charge to participants.

A little more about our poets:

Ric Hool has 9 collections of published poetry and has his work featured in poetry magazines & journals in Europe, USA & UK. He was the Welsh Academy poet for the Abergavenny Food Festival 2009 and also Academy poet representative for the South Bank London Global Poetry System 2009. In 2014 he was tutor delivering workshops as part of Literature Wales Dylan Thomas Centenary: Developing Dylan Project. The publication of Last Fair Deal Gone Down, a docu-story conflating the lives of the author, seminal blues singer/guitarist Robert Johnson and Eric Clapton, came out in Fulcrum No. 6 (Annual of Poetry & Aesthetics) USA. Ric Hool is from Northumberland but lives in Wales and has run the reading series Poetry Upstairs at the Hen & Chicks in Abergavenny for 26 years Selected Publications: Fitting in with Malcolm (WYSIWYG Chapbooks, 1994); Making It (Collective Press, 1998); The Bridge (Collective Press, 2000); Voice from a Correspondent (Collective Press, 2001) No Nothing (The Collective Press, 2009); Selected Poems (Red Squirrel Press 2013) A Way of Falling Upwards (Cinnamon Press2014); Hut (Woodenhead Press pamphlet 2016) Between So Many Words (Red Squirrel Press May 2016) Anthologies: Tilt (Collective Press, 1996); By Grand Central Station We Sat Down & Wept (Red Squirrel Press 2010) Double Bill (Red Squirrel Press 2014); At Time’s Edge (The Vaughan Association 2016) Poems from Snowdon (Seren 2019); Poems from The Borders (Seren 2019)

clare e. potter’s Spilling Histories (Cinnamon Press, 2006) will be followed by A Certain Darkness. A bilingual poet and performer, clare has translated for the National Poet of Wales, was a Hay Festival Writer at Work, enjoys facilitating community projects and collaborating with jazz musicians. She’s currently researching the creative process for Threshold, a new poetry collection thanks to a Literature Wales bursary. She directed BBC Wales documentary The Wall and the Mirror. clare has been widely published in magazines, anthologies and literary journals in the UK including: Cinnamon Press, Poetry Wales, Wales Arts Review, Mslexia, TuChwith, Taliesin, New Welsh Review, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Lampeter Review, Orbis, Cambrensis, Writing in Education, Western Mail, The Raconteur, South Wales Golfer, Long Exposure Magazine International Publications Include: Pikeville Review, Cahoots, The Xavier Review, Seminary Ridge Review, Ninnau, The Mississippi Philological Association Journal, New Laurel Review Press Anthologies: with Faber & Faber (The Map and the Clock), Verve Poetry Press, Seren, Parthian, Cinnamon Press, Bluechrome, Roynetree Press, Litmus Publishing, New Laurel Review Press

There are 24 places available on this workshop so book early to avoid disappointment. Please contact the Revd. Mark Prevett at e: prevtherev@sky.com or t: 01685 553529 to book your place.