We celebrated National Poetry Day at NHSound today with the visit of three Monmouthshire poets, Ric Hool, Ann Drysdale and Angela Platt. The discussions and their readings were complemented by songs that were all based on poems - from Fairport Convention's "To Althea, From Prison" (from Richard Lovelace's poem of 1642) to Donovan singing Edward Lear's "The Owl And The Pussycat"! An interesting and an entertaining morning, with some fantastic poetry from our guests - many thanks to them for giving their time so freely.
I'm fascinated to read of the variety of events nationwide to celebrate National Poetry Day, which takes as its theme this year "Change". One event that particularly caught my attention was Her 100 Cerdd, the Literature Wales venture that involves four poets writing 100 poems in Welsh in 24 hours. To achieve the target the four of them - Manon Awst. Caryl Bryn, Morgan Owen and Osian Owen - will each have to come up with at least one poem an hour for every hour in the day. Challenging or what?! But it's apparently been done five times before so, if you're interested to see what they produce, check out the Literature Wales blog. And if you're doing something a little less ambitious to celebrate the day - enjoy it your way!
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