🎶🎵 Yooooo make me feel 🎶 Welcome to today's earworm, and this week's blog. Borders: Physical, social, sexual, spiritual. @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social @mikeparker.bsky.social and @jonsavage.bsky.social Always creative. Very Montgomeryshire More info and tickets here 👇👇👇 Mighty real montyl

So excited to return to Cardiff Central lib for an event on Gathering PLUS OPEN MIC with @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social. Join us!!!

*New event!* Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (plus open mic), with Durre Shahwar and Hanan Issa! Hear about this landmark collection of essays on nature by women of colour, and join in during a themed open mic session. All welcome! Tickets: tinyurl.com/yrcxyc5e @cardiff-hub.bsky.social

✨IWD ‘25✨ AutoPortrait (Hanan In A Green Nissan) after Tamara de Lempicka 📷: R E Dixon Photography

“In poetry we hold our culture.” Nick Makoha Check out Poetry Off The Shelf’s latest episode where we deep dive into the Welsh language and culture, cynghanedd poetry, and the Cerdd Tafod Arall project. Thanks again to Helena, Nick, Ciara and Hammad 💚 open.spotify.com/episode/11WB...

Had the pleasure of interviewing our National Poet @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social for TheDragon'sPen. Hanan shared projescts she's been doing w/ children immersing them in poems as a way of connecting. Really enriching +important work. Loved hearing her poems🫶❤️‍🔥#TerryTinderProductions #BBCRadioWales

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌙Ramadan Mubarak / Dydd Gwŷl Dewi Sant 🌙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Last year I began the Cerdd Tafod Arall / Music of Another Tongue project - an exploration into understanding more about the tradition of cynghanedd. For more information, check out: www.literaturewales.org/our-projects...

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Happy St David’s Day, especially to this gorgeous anthology edited by @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social & illustrated by @eric-heyman.bsky.social 🙏 I'm super proud to have a poem in And I Hear Dragons, a wonderful collection of poems from diverse Welsh voices ❤️💚

My favorite story about Kafka tells how he met a child who was crying after losing her doll. He wrote her letters from the doll until she wrote back saying she was over it. The great artist as self-contented misanthrope is a myth. If you love what art really is, you help people.

Please enjoy this pic of me, Hamilton, and the commemorative poem I wrote for Wales Millennium Centre’s birthday inspired by Gwyneth Lewis’ iconic verses 💚

Abdellatif Laabi’s ‘My Mother Language / La langue de ma mère 💔