Culture & Democracy Press book launches plus open mic
Read MorePoster for June 25 event
Green Room Podcast
Poster for June 25 event
Culture & Democracy Press book launches plus open mic
Read MoreLaunch of Shared Origins by Mike Jenkins
Read MoreGreen Room from March 2025 featuring Robert Walton, plus open mic. Introduced by Robert Minhinnick.
Read MoreListen to Natalie Ann Holborow - Little Universe now available at SUSSED.
Natalie Ann Holborow is a winner of the Terry Hetherington Award and the Robin Reeves Prize and has been shortlisted and commended for the Bridport Prize, the National Poetry Competition, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the Cursed Murphy Spoken Word Award among others.
Her writing residencies with the British Council, Literature Wales and Kultivera have seen her writing and performing poetry in Wales, Ireland, Sweden and India.
Little Universe is her third full poetry collection. Natalie lives in Swansea, is a proud patron of local charity The Leon Heart Fund, and runs marathons to raise funds.
(Unfortunately, Steve Griffiths was unable to attend).
A tribute to Nigel Jenkins & Alan Perry, plus new work from Gerry Ray.
Read MoreZoë Brigley and Kristian Evans return to the Green Room. Joined by Phil Cope, Laura Wainwright, Gerry Ray and open mic. Hosted by Robert Minhinnick.
Read MorePoster fro Green Room Nov 23
Listen to or download the podcast here -
Green Room from September 2023, with open mic contibutions.
79MB AAC m4a file.
Zoë Brigley at the Green Room and post 2019 election open mic. Hosted by Robert Minhinnick.
Read MoreGreen Room Poster June 2023
The Green Room welcomes Hilary Llewellyn-Williams (former patron of Sustainable Wales) and participating readers such as Phil Cope, Kristian Evans, Gerry Ray and Paul Woodford. Introduced and hosted by Robert Minhinnick. This is the last Green Room before the summer break in July and August. The Green Room returns in September 2023.
Read MoreAngela Graham & Phil cope read at the Green Room February 2023.
Read MoreLaura Wainwright and Kristian Evans
Read MoreLaunch event for Robert Minhinnick’s latest work Delirium. Recorded at the Stage Door, Grand Pavilion Porthcawl.
Peter Finch returns to the Green Room at the start of the Porthcawl Elvis Festival.
Green Room Poster
Zoë Brigley, Kristian Evans, Laura Wainwright and Robert Minhinnick at the Green Room 24 June 2022
Introduced by Robert Minhinnick
Laura Wainwright reads at the Green Room 25th March 2022. Laura Wainwright is from Newport, South Wales. Her poems have been published and are forthcoming in a range of magazines, journals and anthologies. Laura was shortlisted in the Bridport Prize poetry competition in 2013 and 2019, and awarded a Literature Wales Writers' Bursary in 2020 to finish her first collection.
Read Laura Wainwright’s Newport Journal.
As part of fairtrade fortnight 2022 Choose the World You Want Festival
Introduced by Elen Jones of Jeniphers’ Coffi. Featuring writers Robert Minhinnick, Chris Meredith and Sampurna Chattarji reading from India. Readings from Gorwelion Shared Horizons and discussion.
Our own ‘Green Room’ will be the venue for the first launches, featuring Phil Cope, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and Robert Minhinnick on Friday, November 5th, 8pm see our Events pages for more information. A video of this is available on our YouTube channel.
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