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:
- S.L. Grange, winner of the Pamphlet Competition 2021
- David Walrond, winner of the Wales Poetry Award 2021
- Tess Biddington, second award winner of Wales Poetry Award 2021
- Faith M.W. Buckley, third award winner of Wales Poetry Award 2021
What Else is On
You can find the full programme of events here, with highlights including:
- A pre-festival workshop for Primary School teachers on Writing Poetry in the Classroom with Wales Young Poet Award judge Eurig Salisbury (yn Cymraeg)
- English language pre-festival workshops teaching Poetry in Secondary and Primary schools
- Seren Presents: New & Collected Poetry
- Poetry & Climate & Emergency, chaired by Poetry Wales editor Zoë Brigley
- Desert Island Poems with Leanne Wood
- Seren Presents: New Poetry featuring Poetry Wales Spring and Summer 2022 contributing editor Hannah Hodgson
- First Thursday Showcase with Amy Wack
- Music from Kizzy Crawford
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