Gill Lambert is travelling down for Leeds to join us at the Inspired in Caersws poetry festival at Mid Wales Arts Centre next weekend April 21 and 22 She is running a poetry workshop Price £6.. see below for more details and click on the big purple buy now to go the official and safe […]
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Free on April 21st or 22nd? Come to INSPIRED IN CAERSWS festival!
Like poetry? Beautiful setting? Having time to go to workshops, events, open mike? Time to think, walk, write, draw?? Come along to Inspire in Caersws festival! It is on a converted farm outside Newtown in beautiful Wesh countryside – with a camp, glamp and caravan site opposite; and plenty of B&Bs so you can make […]
Visiting Tanya Raabe-Webber’s studio
This week Paul Kielty and I went for our second mentoring session with the amazing artist Tanya Raabe-Webber, at her home studio in Shropshire. We took our lesson plans and Makaton sheets to ask for her expert advice – ahead of our “Painting by Pixels” workshops at Derwen College and Designs in Mind in May […]
Training day with Emma Purshouse
Emma Purshouse is one of those people I, and so many others, COMPLETELY admire and can rely on one hundred per cent. So when I was working out who I would like Paul Kielty and I to receive specialist training from – to prepare us ahead of giving our own Painting By Pixels workshops at […]
Poetry festival plus music and art! April 21 – 22, Mid Wales
I do hope you will join us at Mid Wales Arts Centre in Caersws, near Newtown – for some of the poetry music and art events I have organised there the weekend of April 21 and 22, 2018 All the details are here – if you click on this sentence Menna Elfyn, Robert Minhinnick, Gill […]
Beyond Spring in Guardian’s Travel supplement and Guardian bookshop
Here is the article from Saturday’s Guardian Travel supplement – minus, apologies, their magnificent pictures – but with the Beyond Spring front and back covers to compensate! Hopefully spring really is around the corner now! Nadia x More seasonal walks in Britain, chosen by Matthew Oates from The Guardian Travel Saturday, March 17th 2018 ‘Spring […]
Robert Minhinnick at Inspired in Caersws
After I read Diary of the Last Man, almost a year ago I so wanted to hear Robert Minhinnick read – I suggested to Cathy Knapp at Mid Wales Arts Centre that the poetry afternoon I was organising could be upgraded into a festival. As 2018 is the tenth anniversary of Cathy setting up Mid […]
Thanks and Congrats to the Winners!!
The results for the BBC Countryfile magazine awards are in.. You can read them here Thank you everyone who voted for Matthew Oates’ Beyond Spring to be Country Book of the Year! It wasn’t to be – and I don’t think any of us were expecting it to carry off this coveted award – as […]
Details of Inspired in Caersws Festival!! APRIL 21 – 22
WHAT? A poetry, music and art festival – co-hosted by Fair Acre Press with Mid Wales Arts WHEN? 21 – 22 April 2018 WHERE? Mid Wales Arts, Maesmawr, Caersws, Newtown SY17 5SB It is, if coming from Newtown, on the right – directly off the A470 and just after you […]
Beyond Spring review in TLS
An extract from a review in the Times Literary Supplement today! Matthew sent me a photo from the review and I have transcribed parts below… Nadia x Matthew Oates, by contrast, is a fully authentic naturalist who is scarcely packaged at all. His book consists in a series of wonderful effusions – about places, […]
