Poetry Wales at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival

A hybrid poetry festival taking place from Friday 29th – Sunday 31st July

Cardiff’s biggest poetry festival is back for 2022, and this time it’s hybrid! Our friends at Seren have been working hard to put together an amazing lineup of readings, launches, workshops and more this July, all centring around the theme of Wellness in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

About the Festival

Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival is an annual celebration of live poetry, workshops, panel discussions and debate, based in the heart of Wales’s capital city with the aim to create a space where poets, writers and performers, especially from Wales, can come together and share their work with new audiences

The 2022 programme, curated by Seren’s new poetry editors Rhian Edwards and Zoë Brigley (also the editor of Poetry Wales), is centred on the theme of wellbeing. It includes workshops on mindfulness, meditation, and therapeutic writing, discussions on empowerment, grief and the climate emergency, and explores how poetry can help us take care of ourselves in today’s busy and complicated world. 

Poetry Wales at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival

We are delighted to be opening the festival with a Poetry Wales Award Ceremony and Reading event on Friday 29th July, hosted by Zoë Brigley and featuring readings from our recent competition winners:

What Else is On

You can find the full programme of events here, with highlights including:

Tickets

You can join in with the festivities in person at The University of South Wales’ The Atrium, with weekend and day passes available as well as tickets for individual events, or buy an online pass for the weekend and stream from the comfort of your own home