Author: celfypridd

Starts 7.45 pm (doors open 7.30pm)

In these serious times come relax, listen and enjoy a treat of a night of words – Poetry, Spoken Word Song.

Ben Wildsmith is a singer songwriter from Birmingham who lives in the Rhondda and has performed around the world for the last 30 years. His songs combine folk and blues elements with sharp lyrics and an ironic take on subjects ranging from philosophy to politics, love and loss. He’s a published writer of fiction and a columnist for Nation Cymru. His new album, ‘Damn My Sense of Humour’ will be released in 2023 and his memoir will be published by Calon Books in 2024

Reading and performing with Ben will be – Carole Burns, Rachel Carney, Sion Tomos Owen, Ben Wildsmith, Nick McGaughey, Pete Akinwunmi, Johnny Giles & Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event!

Voices on the Bridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

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More Bridges Less Walls!

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Starts 7.45 pm (doors open 7.30pm)

A glorious night for a rich spread of Poetry, Spoken Word Song and Shadow Puppetry all the way from California!

Rachel Carney is a creative writing tutor and PhD student based in Cardiff. Her poems, reviews and articles have been published in numerous magazines including Poetry Wales, Anthropocene, and Acumen. She won the Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Competition and was voted runner up in the Bangor Poetry Competition in 2021. Two of her poems have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Her debut collection Octopus Mind is published by Seren Books.

Reading and performing with Rachel will be – Carol Burns, Sion Tomos Owen, TwistedHeart Puppetwork, Ben Wildsmith, Nick McGaughey, Pete Akinwunmi, Johnny Giles & Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event!

VoicesontheBridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge@ClwbyBont Pontypridd

So come in from the gloom of Autumn nights for a real spread of Poetry, Spoken Word Song and Shadow Puppetry all the way from California!

Reading and performing will be Rachel Carney, Carol Burns, Sion Tomos Owen, TwistedHeart Puppetwork, Ben Wildsmith, Nick McGaughey, Pete Akinwunmi, Johnny Giles & Rob Cullen.

VoicesontheBridge is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event!

VoicesontheBridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge@ClwbyBont Pontypridd

So come in from the gloom of Autumn nights for a real spread of Poetry, Spoken Word Song and Shadow Puppetry all the way from California!

Reading and performing will be Rachel Carney, Carol Burns, Sion Tomos Owen, TwistedHeart Puppetwork, Ben Wildsmith, Nick McGaughey, Pete Akinwunmi, Johnny Giles & Rob Cullen.

VoicesontheBridge is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event!

VoicesontheBridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge @ClwbyBont Pontypridd

Thursday 21st September ’23

starts 7.45pm.

VoicesontheBridge has much to offer in a wide range of poets, writers, musicians and performers – If you think you might want to read your poems or sing and are nervous about it – come along and have a listen there’s nothing like dipping your toe in the water … VoicesontheBridge might just be what youre looking for! Come along and listen… and relax!

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Stephen Payne was born in Merthyr Tydfil and lives in Penarth, South Glamorgan. His first full collection, Pattern Beyond Chance, was published in 2015 by HappenStance Press and shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. The Windmill Proof (September 2021) and The Wax Argument and other Thought Experiments (February 2022) were published by the same press.

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Stephen Payne will be reading with Mike McNamara, Topher Mills, Leigh Manley, Mary Kaye, Stephen Payne, Stephanie McNicholas, Peter Thabit Jones, Pete Akinwunmi, Rebecca G DHand & Rob Cullen.

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Voices on the Bridge is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event.

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Voices on the Bridge is organised by Rob Cullen.

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More Bridges Less Walls.

Pontypridd a Town of Bridges.

Voices on the Bridge @ClwbyBont Ponypridd
Thursday 21st September ’23

VoicesontheBridge has another exceptional lineup of poets, writers, musicians and performers – If you think you might want to read, are nervous about it – come along and have a listen … VoicesontheBridge might just be what youre looking for! Come along and listen… and relax!

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Mike McNamara had his Selected Poems Overhearing The Incoherent published by Grevatt and Grevatt in 1997. His poems have appeared in Acumen, The Atlanta Review, Orbis, International Times, Ink Sweat & Tears, The New Welsh Review, Tears in the Fence, etc. His ebook This Transmission was published in Oct. 2019 by The Argotist Online. His print book Dialling A Starless Past was published by Arenig Press in December 2019 and his collection Loose Canon was published in July 2020 by Canada’s Subterranean Blue Poetry. His poem Other Times was featured in the 2022 Bridport Literature newsletter and his latest collection Mondegreen was published in Nov. 2022 by US publisher Aji Press
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With Mike McNamara will be Topher Mills, Leigh Manley, Mary Kaye, Stephen Payne, Stephanie McNicholas, Peter Thabit Jones, Pete Akinwunmi, Rebecca G DHand & Rob Cullen.
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Voices on the Bridge is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event.
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Voices on the Bridge is organised by Rob Cullen.
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More Bridges Less Walls.

Pontypridd a Town of Bridges.

VoicesontheBridge at Clwb Y Bont 85a Taff Street Pontypridd.

Come listen to a cracking lineup of writers poets & musicians – lift the load for an evening & enjoy the play with words!

Starts 7.45pm Thursday 21st September ’23

With – Mary Kaye, Leigh Manley, Topher Mills, Mike Macnamara, Stephen Payne, Stephanie McNicholas, Peter Thabit Jones, Pete Akinwunmi, Rebecca G DHand & Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge at Clwb Y Bont is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event.

Voices on the Bridge is organised by Rob Cullen

@PoetryWales @RCT @PontyBID

More Bridges less Walls

Remember Voices on the Bridge at Clwb Y Bont Thursday 21st September ’23

starts 7.45pm

with – Mary Kaye, Leigh Manley, Topher Mills, Mike Macnamara, Stephen Payne, Stephanie McNicholas, Peter Thabit Jones, Pete Akinwunmi, Rebecca G DHand & Rob Cullen.

Come listen to a cracking lineup of writers poets & musicians – lift the load for an evening & enjoy the play with words!

Voices on the Bridge @ClwbyBont is hosted by Clwb Y Bont and is a free event.

Voices on the Bridge @ClwbyBont is organised by Rob Cullen

Voices on the Bridge at @ClwbyBont
Thursday 21st September 2023 starts 7.45pm.

With Rebecca G Dhand, Stephanie McNicholas, Peter Thabit Jones, Mary Kaye, Topher Mills, Stephen Payne, Leigh Manley, Peter Akinwunmi, Nicholas McGaughey & Rob Cullen.

Voices on the Bridge is a free event hosted by Clwb Y Bont
Voices on the Bridge Clwb Y Bont is organised by Rob Cullen

All are welcome to a night of spoken word, music and song!

Take a pew and cool out – you never know it might have stopped raining!

The present English Governments assault on the arts in the education syllabus should remind us of Albert Camus defence of the Arts – and that Welsh miners saw the importance of education, including the Arts, as a means to emancipation – money they deducted from their weekly wage packets to pay for libraries nad edeucation.

“Tyrants know there is an emancipatory force, which is mysterious only to those who do not revere it. Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret. And thousands of concentration camps and barred cells are not enough to hide this staggering testimony of dignity. This is why it is not true that culture can be, even temporarily, suspended in order to make way for a new culture. Man’s unbroken testimony as to his suffering and his nobility cannot be suspended; the act of breathing cannot be suspended”

Albert Camus ‘Creating Dangerously’ was a speech delivered at the University of Uppsala in Sweden in December 1957, a few days after Camus had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.