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Friday 23rd. February Span Arts presents

Nigel Jenkins                         John Barnie

MADOG’S MOONSHINE / LLAETH MWNCI MADOG

With an open mike slot for your poems

Three of Wales’s baddest bardic misbehavers and veterans of many a blues-n-poetry roadshow − John Barnie (guitar and Planet), Nigel Jenkins (harmonica and encyclopaedia) and Iwan Llwyd (guitar and pork-pie hat) – hit the trail as Madog’s Moonshine / Llaeth Mwnci Madog, a bilingual blues and poetry show with a strong Welsh-American flavour. The group’s name tips a wink to the legendary Welsh ‘discoverer’ of America, Madog ab Owain Gwynedd (fl. 1170).

 

John Barnie, editor of the magazine Planet until late 2006, has published 15 collections of poetry, fiction and essays, including a personal history of the blues in Welsh, Y Felan a Finnau (University of Wales Press, 1992). He reviews blues CDs regularly for the magazine Juke Blues. In 1979 he worked at the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis,

Nigel Jenkins, winner of the 1999 national John Tripp Poetry Slam, has published a dozen or so books, including an account of Welsh missionaries in north-east India, Gwalia in Khasia (1995), which won the Welsh Book of the Year Award in 1996. Co-editor of the forthcoming Academi Encyclopaedia of Wales, he teaches creative writing at the University of Wales Swansea.

Iwan Llwyd is a poet and writer from Talybont near Bangor. He won the crown at the 1990 Rhymni Valley National Eisteddfod, and his 1997 volume of poetry, Dan Ddylanwad (Under the Influence) won theWelsh Bookof the Year Award. A highly popular performer, he has read his poetry all over the world, including venues in the United States, Canada, Patagonia and, lately, Brazil.

 A night of performance poetry featuring some of Wales most interesting poetry performers and an open mike, with  time for your own poems.

Featuring.  John Barnie, Nigel Jenkins and Iwan Llwyd and others with poems and songs in this celebration of spoken poetry for everyone to enjoy. If you like our comedy club or storytelling shows, you will have a great time tonight.

Call us to book a slot at the open mike to read your own poem

Doors open 7.30pm Starts 8pm. Tickets £6/£5 from 01834 869323

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