Meet the Poets:
​‘The more I wonder, the more I love’. Weed Manifesto. Witness the Strip.
Emma Baines
has published in magazines and anthologies and translates for Menna Elfyn. She is interested in how poetry can reach people through visual art, film poetry and enriching public spaces. She is working on her first collection and her translations will feature in ‘Parch’ with Bloodaxe in October.
The creators of happiness. Who Owns the Land?. A god appears under the old apple tree. One for sorrow.
Jackie Biggs
has had three collections of her poetry published, and her work appears in many anthologies. She performs her poetry at spoken word events all over West Wales. She is currently working on a new collection of poems related to the climate crisis. Her poetry blog is here: http://jackie-news.blogspot.co.uk
Friends. You Can Only Ban Safe Abortions. The Birdfeeder.
Jane Campbell
her debut collection Slowly as Clouds won the Geoff Stevens Prize 2021. Jane won the Disability Arts Cymru Creative Writing Award 2022. Amongst other places her poems appear in Poetry Wales, Ink, Sweat & Tears and Black Bough. Collaborating with quiltmaker Sarah-Joy Ford several poems are currently displayed at The Whittaker Museum.
@jane_campbell_poet
Beyond Kyiv. What I learn from an oak. Self-portrait as a weeping willow.
Christian Donovan
retired about two years ago from work as a guide at Carew Castle, where she enjoyed telling stories. She now has more time to write and has had a scattering of poems published, mostly online.
The President Isn’t Joking. If You Could See From Here. I can't breathe.
Jean Riley
performed in Shoreditch (south Asian dance/spoken word), and in Gloucestershire enabled elderly people to find their poetry voice. Her work appears in Envoi, Obsessed with Pipework, Mslexia, Under the Radar, The Rialto, Poetry Salzburg and Poetry Ireland Reviews. In Pembrokeshire, she enjoys collaborating with poets on justice and survival.
Peace Tank. Salisbury Crags, 1908. Rubble. The Queeriosity Box.
Bean Sawyer
is a queer multidisciplinary artist, writer, and poet in her fourth year of a Creative Writing MA with UWTSD. Bean is a part-time Stained-Glass tutor with Pembrokeshire Lifelong Learners and runs a postal poetry project, The Murmuration of Words, exhibited at Oriel y Parc, St Davids last year.
http://www.artisanrising.co.uk
https://murmurationofwords.substack.com
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Meet the Artist Collaborators:
If You Could See From Here.
Robene Dutta
Robene retired as a children’s multi-lingual book publisher and now enjoys a variety of media in his artwork, including digital, charcoal, pastels and watercolour.
Peace Tank
Karn John
is a queer neurodivergent Welsh artist, writer and workshop facilitator rooted in the written word and natural inks, hand-made from materials grown and gathered in the UK. Their artistic practice is led by the seasons, exploring inner and outer landscapes and challenging old narratives.
​You can follow Karn's INKLINGS on:
Substack - https://kathrynjohn.substack.com/
Instagram - @kathrynjohn
Facebook - @KathrynJohnNaturalInk
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The creators of happiness. Who Owns the Land?. A god appears under the old apple tree. One for sorrow.
Karen Little
(@kazvina) has been published many times in magazines and books. She trained as a fine artist at Camberwell College of Arts. Her paintings, prints, and sculptures have been exhibited internationally, including solo shows in Spain.
Witness the Strip.
Linda Norris
works with various media and is constantly trying to find the best way to express her ideas. Her inspiration remains firmly rooted in landscape and her work is driven by a desire to move away from pictorial representation to make work fuelled by ideas that underpin and investigate a sense of place. She continues to show her work in her own studio gallery, Oriel Linda Norris Gallery in Pembrokeshire.
The President Isn’t Joking.
Squidge Squires
is an artist, musician and writer living in West Wales, pembrokeshire. https://squidge-minds-eye.com/