Join us for an evening of poetry showcasing the best of Welsh talent.

Taz Rahman

Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s 2024 Jerwood Poetry Prize, Taz Rahman’s debut poetry collection ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’ was published by Seren Books and also longlisted for the 2024 Laurel Prize. He had been shortlisted for the 2023 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and widely published in magazines and anthologies, including most recently in Faber & Faber’s, ‘Nature Matters, Vital Poems from the Global Majority’. He founded Wales’ first Youtube poetry channel ‘Just Another Poet’ and serves as a diversity advisor to the Books Council of Wales, an editor for the climate emergency magazine Modron, and committee chair of Poetry Wales magazine.

Rhian Elizabeth

Rhian Elizabeth is a trainee counsellor and a writer. Her debut novel, Six Pounds Eight Ounces, was published in 2014 by Seren Books and is currently being adapted for TV, and there are the poetry collections the last polar bear on earth, published in 2018 by Parthian Books, and girls etc, by Broken Sleep Books, which won Wales Book of The Year 2025 for the poetry award, people’s choice award and has been longlisted for the Polari Prize. Her prose and poetry has appeared in many magazines and anthologies worldwide and been listed in various competitions and prizes, recently being longlisted for the Plaza Poetry Prize and winning Verve Press’ poetry competition, as well as being featured on BBC Radio 4’s PM programme. She was named by the welsh agenda as one of Wales’ Rising Stars- one of 30 people working to make Wales better over the next 30 years. She is a Hay Festival Writer at Work and was previously Writer in Residence at the Coracle International Literary Festival in Tranås, Sweden. maybe i’ll call gillian anderson is her latest collection of poetry, published by Broken Sleep Books.

Joshua Jones

Joshua Jones (he/him) is a queer, disabled writer & artist from Llanelli. Local Fires, (Parthian, 2023) was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize & Polari First Book Prize. He has published various pamphlets of poetry, including A Fistful of Flowers in collaboration with Caitlin Flood-Molyneux (2022), Three Months in the Zebra Room (Hello America Stereo Cassette, 2024), and The City on Film (Bread and Roses). He is also the editor of Room/Ystafell/Phòng (Parthian, 2023)