Dylan Thomas International Summer School 2014

Red Heron reading, 2nd July tbc

Message to Mars (haiku)

NASA will be including a DVD of haiku wriiten by the public in their next probe sent to Mars.

Closing date 1 July.

WISPA

WISPA is the Welsh/Irish Spoken Poetry Alliance.Red Heron is now a member. This means that we will be able to share the experience of inviting Irish poets to our Tuesday night meetings for either a workshop or a reading, and in return writers from our group,and other local groups will be able to read in Ireland. All we have to do is provide accommodation for the visiting writer, and transport the writer on to the next venue. It sounds exciting. WISPA was launched on Saturday 1st June at Wexford Arts Centre with the Welsh/Irish I Slam so I Am event.

Is the slim volume dead?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/24/salt-poetry-market-slump

Interesting article about Salt abandoning single-author poetry books.   In a way this isn't that surprising - even people whoe write poetry don't buy many books, and I think one major issue is that while people do buy novels online sight unseen, you really need to browse through a poetryt book befoe you buy it, so now there aren't many bookshops, and those there are don't stock poetry, nobody will.

Poetry from Strata Florida (2013)

The anthology includes poems about Strata Florida by Red Heron members alongside historical poetry, in Welsh and English, and poems by Harri Webb, Ruth Bidgood, R S Thomas and Gwyneth Lewis.

Includes poems by:

Gillian Clarke
Anthony Kendrew
Martin Locock
Carol Manwell
Kathy Miles
Sue Moules
Mary Overton
Amanda Pickering
Josie Smith

Published 2013.  £10.  ISBN 978-0-9565067-5-7. 123pp.  Available from Carreg Fflyfan Press


One of the other poets featured, Caroline Gill, has written about the anthology:

<http://carolinegillpoetry.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/anthology-alert-poetry-from-strata.html>