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to the latest edition of the Dylan Thomas Centre Programme of events.

After her reading last December, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy declaredthat she’d like to round off every year with a reading in Swansea. Herwish is our command, and she’ll be back at the close of the year.

There’s plenty to enjoy before that, not least an exciting Dylan ThomasFestival packed with great events, details of which will be released in aseparate brochure.

Jo FurberLiterature Officer

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Saturday, 10 September / 1pmTHEATRE-IN-FOCUS: THEATRE CO PRESENT

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW’S O’FLAHERTY VCO’Flaherty VC was written at the height of the FirstWorld War, and savagely satirises war and imperialism.All Theatre-In-Focus presentations are script-in-hand,and preceded by a talk about the playwright.ALL TICKETS: £5

Wednesday, 14 September / 7.30pm

KICK FOR TOUCHBY PETER GILLThe story of a love triangle between two brothers, Joeand Jim, and Joe’s wife Eileen. “[Gill has] an explosiveconcentration and lyrical integrity rare, not to say unique,among living British playwrights” - Plays and Players. ALL TICKETS: £4

Wednesday, 28 September / 7.30pm

CARLOZ NUNEZSwansea University’s Carloz Nunez discussestheoretical physics and string theory.TICKETS: Free

Thursday, 29 September / 7.30pm

POETS IN THE BOOKSHOP:DERYN REES-JONESDeryn Rees-Jones is the author of Consorting withAngels, a book that charts the development oftwentieth-century women’s poetry, and is editor of theaccompanying anthology Modern Women Poets. Herfourth collection of poems, Burying the Wren, isforthcoming from Seren in 2012. Plus open mic.TICKETS: £4 £2.80 £1.60

SEPTEMBER EVENTS

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OCTOBER EVENTS

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Wednesday, 5 October / 7.30pmPOETRY FROM CORK:GERRY MURPHY AND LIZ O’DONOGHUELiz O’Donoghue is a poet, translator, film maker and event organiser, whose most recent book is Train To Gorey. Gerry Murphy, following anunforgettable performance earlier this year, returns to celebrate his latest collection, My Flirtation withInternational Socialism.The reading will be preceded by In the Hands ofErato, Liz O’Donoghue’s film featuring Paddy Galvinand other Cork writers reading poems in the settingsthey describe, which she filmed in 1999 and 2000. Itwill be shown from 6.45 – 7.15pm, and is includedin the ticket price. TICKETS: £4 £2.80 £1.60

Thursday, 6 October / 7.30pm

SONG FOR A RAGGY BOYA celebration of the life and work of Patrick Galvin

Poets and musicians from Swansea and Cork paytribute to Paddy Galvin, one of Ireland’s mostinfluential poets, who was instrumental inestablishing the Swansea–Cork Writers’ Exchange.Paddy, who was also a singer, playwright and screenwriter, drew large and appreciative audienceswhenever he read in Swansea. Gerry Murphy and LizO’Donoghue will be joined by the Swansea poetsNigel Jenkins, David Hughes and John Goodby,the singer Margot Morgan and the musician AndyJones (of Boys from the Hill fame).TICKETS: Free

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Saturday, 15 October / 1pmTHEATRE-IN-FOCUS: THEATRE CO PRESENT

‘A CELEBRATION OF IBSEN’A look at the life and work of Henrik Ibsen, “thefather of modern theatre”, with excerpts from PeerGynt, Ghosts, A Doll’s House and The Enemy of thePeople. All Theatre-In-Focus presentations are script-in-hand, and preceded by a talk about the playwright.ALL TICKETS: £5

Wednesday, 19 October / 7.30pm

DAVID SKIBINSKISwansea University’s David Skibinski discussesFermi paradox and extraterrestrial life. Organised withthe Wales Gene Park.TICKETS: Free

Thursday, 20 October / 7.30pmPOETS IN THE BOOKSHOP:JASMINE DONAHAYEJasmine Donahaye’s first poetry collection,Misappropriations, was shortlisted for the JerwoodAldeburgh Prize, and her second, Self-Portrait AsRuth, was longlisted for Wales Book of the Year. Sheteaches at Swansea University, and is editor ofPlanet. Plus open mic.TICKETS: £4 £2.80 £1.60

27 October – 9 November

DYLAN THOMAS FESTIVALWith Sarah Waters, Simon Armitage, Pete Brown, TonyPenrose, Fflur Dafydd, Horatio Clare, Matthew Hollis,Deborah Kay Davies, Tessa Hadley, and Somalian poets,Gaarriye and Saado. See www.dylanthomas.com

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NOVEMBER EVENTS

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Saturday, 12 November / 1pmTHEATRE-IN-FOCUS:

THEATRE CO PRESENT

BRIAN FRIEL’STHE YALTA GAMEBrian Friel is arguably Ireland’sgreatest living playwright. The Yalta Game explores thegiddiness of love but also the darkcynicism that can undermine it. A wonderfully comic and bittersweetplay from a master of his craft. All Theatre-In-Focus presentationsare script-in-hand, and precededby a talk about the playwright.ALL TICKETS: £5

Wed, 23 November / 7.30pmORANGE

BY ALAN HARRISTwo local laddos find their ownanswer to ‘world terrorism’. AlanHarris’ A Good Night Out in theValleys was Alan Harris’s and NationalTheatre Wales’s opening play.ALL TICKETS: £4

Wed, 30 November / 7.30pm

GEORGE TRUSCOTTKeele University’s GeorgeTruscott discusses life, death andthe carotenoids, in a talkorganised by the Royal Society ofChemistry. TICKETS: Free

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Thursday, 24 November / 7.30pmPOETS IN THE BOOKSHOP:PHILIP GROSST.S. Eliot Prize winnerPhilip Grossreads from Deep Field, his newcollection from Bloodaxe. In hisnineties, Gross’s father, a wartimerefugee, began to lose his severallanguages, first to deafness, thenprofound aphasia. Deeply thought aswell as deeply felt, these poems reach intothat gulf to find him. Plus open mic.TICKETS:

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DECEMBER EVENTS

Wed, 14 December / 7.30pm

FREE FOLKBY GARY OWENUnexpected happenings in a smallriverside community – as the waterrises. Gary Owen is one of Wales’leading writers, whose other workincludes Baker Boys and LoveSteals Us From Loneliness.

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Friday, 9 December / 7.30pm

CAROL ANN DUFFY AND GILLIAN CLARKE After last year’s sell-out performance, NationalPoet of Wales, Gillian Clarke and PoetLaureate, Carol Ann Duffy, return toSwansea to read and discuss their work. Early booking recommended!

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Whilst every effort is made to ensurethat the details of this programme areaccurate, the City & County of Swanseareserve the right to alter any part of theprogramme without notice.

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27 October – 19 JanuaryCORRIDOR GALLERY EXHIBITION:Lee Miller: Visiting PicassoAcclaimed photographer Lee Miller, and surrealist writer RolandPenrose, visited Picasso on many occasions, with Picassotravelling to their home in Sussex in 1950. Miller charted theirremarkable friendship from 1937 to Picasso’s death in 1973, and this exhibition – which includes images of other members of the internationalsurrealist circle – offers a unique and intimate portrait of life close to Picasso.

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