Spoken Word Saturday | Sadwrn Siarad y Gair - Christina Thatcher
Schedule
Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 at 02:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Ffwrnes Fach - The new Arts and health hub for Llanelli, SA15 3YE Llanelli, United Kingdom | Llanelli, WA
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Join hosts Ceri John Phillips & David Pitt for an afternoon of sharing stories, poetry, creative writing – all through the Spoken Word!
Entry is free, and refreshments are provided (donations for these are warmly welcomed!).
Special guests and a safe space for our community to share in our ‘Speak Up Spots’ for you to read or perform your own work. If you’d like to reserve one of these please let us know. We ask you to please keep your pieces to a maximum of 5 minutes, or preferably shorter so that we can have as many people sharing as possible.
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We are pleased to have poet and author Christina Thatcher at Spoken Word Saturday.
Christina grew up between a farm and a ranch house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She won a Marshall Scholarship to undertake two MAs in the UK, after which she completed a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at Cardiff University, where she is now a lecturer. Her poetry and short stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including Ambit, Butcher’s Dog, Magma, Poetry Wales, The North, The Poetry Review and more. She has two previous poetry collections with Parthian Books: More than you were (2017) and How to Carry Fire (2020). Christina has toured internationally, reading her work in the UK, USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Switzerland, and Romania. christinathatcher.com / @writetoempower.
Christina will be sharing words and poems and reflecting on her recent work Breaking a Mare which is an investigation of silence, goodness and girlhood. It invites readers into the barn, the sawdust mill, the rodeo arena. These poems expose the hard work women do on farms, the loss of rural landscapes and the role death can play in these spaces. They ask what it means to be good in the face of physical, emotional and ecological threat. Ultimately, these poems want to know what breaks us and what makes us stronger.
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14+
Ymunwch â'r gwesteiwyr Ceri John Phillips a David Pitt am brynhawn o rannu straeon, barddoniaeth, ysgrifennu creadigol - i gyd trwy'r Gair Llafar! Gwesteion arbennig a gofod diogel i'n cymuned rannu (5 munud max)
Dim barnu, dim egoau. Dim ond eistedd yn ôl, mwynhau paned a gwrando!
AM DDIM. Croesewir rhoddion ar gyfer Diodydd a Lluniaeth Ysgafn
Gwesteion pob mis a cyfle agored i siarad lan yn ein cymuned.
Os hoffech gadw un o’r rhain rhowch wybod i ni. Gofynnwch i chi gadw eich darnau hyd at 5 munud ar y mwyaf, neu yn fyrrach fel y gallwn gael cymaint o rannu a phosibl.
I archebu'ch lle: [email protected] neu ffoniwch 01554 292393
Rydym yn falch iawn o gael y bardd a’r awdur Christina Thatcher yn y Sadwrn Llafar.
Tyfodd Christina rhwng fferm a thŷ ransh yn Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Enillodd Ysgoloriaeth Marshall i ddilyn dau gwrs MA yn y Deyrnas Unedig, ac yna cwblhaodd PhD mewn Ysgrifennu Creadigol a Beirniadol ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd, lle mae’n ddarlithydd
yn awr. Cyhoeddwyd ei barddoniaeth a’i storïau byrion yn eang mewn cylchgronau llenyddol, gan gynnwys Ambit, Butcher’s Dog, Magma, Poetry Wales, The North, The Poetry Review a mwy. Cyhoeddodd ddwy flodeugerdd gyda Parthian Books: More than you were (2017) a How to Carry Fire (2020). Teithiodd Christina yn rhyngwladol, gan ddarllen ei gwaith yn y Deyrnas Unedig, UDA, Canada, Costa Rica, Y Swistir a Rwmania. christinathatcher.com / @writetoempower.
Bydd Christina yn rhannu geiriau a cherddi ac yn trafod ei gwaith diweddar Breaking a Mare sy’n ymchwilio i dawelwch, daioni a genethdod. Mae’n gwahodd darllenwyr i’r sgubor, y felin llwch lli, y cylch rodeo. Mae’r cerddi yma’n trafod y gwaith caled a wna menywod ar ffermydd, colli tirweddau gwledig a’r rhan y gall marwolaeth ei chwarae yn y mannau hyn. Maent yn gofyn beth mae’n ei olygu i fod yn dda yn wyneb bygythiad corfforol, emosiynol ac ecolegol. Yn y pen draw mae’r cerddi yma eisiau gwybod beth sy’n ein torri ni a beth sy’n ein gwneud yn gryfach.
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Where is it happening?
The Ffwrnes Fach - The new Arts and health hub for Llanelli, SA15 3YE Llanelli, United Kingdom, Ffwrnes Theatre, Park Street, Llanelli, SA15 3, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
