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Cymru Gynaliadwy ‘Green Room’, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 8pm, 5 JAMES ST. PORTHAWL CF36 3BG dedicated to ‘Memoir’ & ‘Coffadwriaeth’. All welcome to share poems, stories..Image: Decima Minhinnick (13.11.26 - 10.9.23) to whom ‘Family Bible’ in ‘Long Poem Magazine' issue 30 dedicated. £4.

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‘Memoir’ & ‘Coffadwriaethau’: Cerddi, Straeon, Sgyrsiau, Cwmni da. 8pm 22.3.24, 5, James St. Saesneg? Dim problem. Porthcawl CF36 3BG. £4 ar y drws. Croeso cynnes i bawb

Woud be pleased to see friends & writers at this event, WEDS. APRIL 10, 7-9.30pm, PONTYPRIDD. YMa, Taff St CF37 4TS. New work/Gwaith newydd. Croeso i bawb. Launch of new series of readings.

Fergal Sharkey in devastating form on polluting water monopolies (not companies) who’ve “ram raided” Britain and ripped us all off he says channel4.com/news/sharehold… via Krishnan Guru-Murthy

This is the way to go. It shouldn’t be newsworthy, but it’s great to see Switch On To Swindon

seems lots of people wishing to read.. good idea to be on time to register ...Pob lwc i chi gyd!

“If we had a 40C rise in the UK now that would take temperatures for a spring day to over 50C – and that would be deadly for the population.” Yup. >The Antarctic has just experienced exactly that rise.< …I’m scared. And sad. (You?) READ: theguardian.com/environment/20…

GWENT LEVELS CAMPAIGN Readings and RSPB talk: 7.30 pm, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at ‘Le Pub’, 19, High St., NEWPORT NP20 1FW. Organized by Sustainable Wales/Cymru Gynaliadwy. Wish to attend/perform? [email protected] Uskmouth curlew – Laura Wainwright

Sustainable Wales’s Green Room returns, APRIL 26, 8pm with ABEER AMEER. Her 'Inhale/Exile' on sale. Daniel Robicheau, speaks about use of ‘depleted uranium’. Includes 6 minute film, ‘Black Hands’, set in the fatal Amiriya bunker. Open Mic. £4 ar y drws. BYOB. Croeso cynnes!

Robert Minhinnick's blog post on the recent successful meeting event supporting the Gwent Levels Campaign. Read here: sustainablewales.org.uk/blog/2024/4/19… #gwent #wetlands #conservation

Why is govt offering millions of pounds to poultry farmers to incinerate their manure, but offering no support to farmers who would rather transition away from intensive poultry production? The best solution is fewer chickens! Here’s Nicola Cutcher on BBC Politics Wales:

What a life! Jerome Rothenberg, poet, has died. (December 11, 1931 – April 21, 2024). Worked with him in Brasil about 25 years ago. Iwan Llwyd particularly taken with him. They collaborated. Diolch am bobeth, Jerome.

In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was 'far finer' than his native tongue. Right or wrong, I love his savor for language

Heno - Sgwrs & cherddi Iraq. Abeer Ameer, Daniel Robicheau, Robert Minhinnick. Ffilm' Black Hands about the Amiriya atrocity. Meic Agored. Croeso i bawb. £4. BYOB. 5, James St. Porthcawl CF36 3BG.

Read this brand new essay if you dare… You may have to change your life… aeon.co/essays/is-civi…

The May Poet of the Month on seventhquarrypress.com is the renowned Welsh poet and writer Robert Minhinnick. Take a look at Robert's excellent poems.

You are our hero John Griffiths MS

Friends of the Gwent Levels John Griffiths MS But Cardiff is also responsible for its section of the Levels which is under equally pressing threat from industrial estates and proposed Cardiff Parkway. Worried.