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Directing The Hunchback in the Park
Bram Ttwheam
Director Bram Ttwheam describes directing 'The Hunchback in the Park', a聽unique short animation of Dylan Thomas's poem performed by Michael Sheen and produced for the centenary year of the poet's birth.
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Dark and disturbing poem to be performed in English for very first time
Polly March
This year marked 100 years since the birth of the acclaimed Welsh poet RS Thomas, while 2014 will see hundreds of events taking place worldwide to celebrate the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth.
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Jemma King launches her first collection of poetry at the Dylan Thomas Centre
Polly March
Award-winning Welsh poet Jemma King is currently halfway through the launch tour of her very first collection of poetry.
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Poet Rhian Edwards to host spoken word event as residency draws to a close
Polly March
It's an exciting time for Bridgend poet Rhian Edwards: her first child is due in three months, her first book of poems has been shortlisted for a Wales Book of the Year award and her second collection is coming along nicely.
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Academics, poets and musicians unite in evening to mark RS Thomas' centenary
Polly March
This year marks a century since the birth of the celebrated Welsh poet and priest RS Thomas. Famed for his uncompromising and often stark representations of religion and the Welsh landscape, Thomas was also passionate about the Welsh nationalist cause and a fan of the visual arts.
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Performance poet is next Young People's Laureate
Polly March
When Martin Daws was a schoolboy he, like so many other young people, had little interest in the poetry he was taught in school. But, as a lover of musical lyrics and inspired early on by artists like Bowie and Dylan, as well as hip hop and rap, he soon learned that the scope of poetic verse rea...
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Idris Davies, poet of the Depression
Phil Carradice
One man who tried to chart or capture the suffering that the people of the Welsh valleys endured - was the poet Idris Davies.
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Life at arts centre to inspire poet's verse
Polly March
The award winning poet Rhian Edwards has just been installed in post at the first-ever writer in residence at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
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The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck
Phil Carradice
One of the most popular poems in the Victorian Age - for recitation and for private reading - was undoubtedly Casabianca or, as it is invariably known, "The boy stood on the burning deck."
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The people's poets of Wales
Phil Carradice
It might be something of a generalization but, from the early days of the princes, the Welsh have always enjoyed poetry and revered their bards.
