UWTSD Academic invited to perform at major poetry festival
UWTSD’s Creative Writing lecturer, Dominic Williams, has been invited to perform at this year’s Morecambe Poetry Festival.
This weekend, he will join sixty-two poets at Morecambe Winter Gardens for three days of workshops, open mics, family friendly shows, star headliners, word walks and a poetry anthology. This year’s festival welcomes household names such as Brian Bilston, Carol Ann Duffy, and Roger McGough.
As well as his work as a lecturer at UWTSD, Dominic Williams is a poet, performer and creative mentor. He is one half of the improvised spoken-word and movement act, Your Strangest Friend, with contemporary dancer Stina Nilsson and part of the FYD collective, an international group of contemporary artists from Serbia, Sweden, Croatia, and Wales
His latest publications include Pen & Paper: Punks in Print, an illustrated lyric essay (Kultivera Productions, 2021); En galen man på tåget, a collection of his poetry translated into Swedish (Magnus grehn förlag, 2022) and The Lonely Crowd (Iconau Press, 2022), a translation into English of the original Bengali poetry of Anisur Rahman.
Ahead of the festival, Dominic Williams, commented:
“I’m excited to be taking part in such a prestigious event and to have this opportunity to work with the other Welsh poets that have been invited to stage this special showcase of contemporary Welsh poetry.
The idea to showcase Welsh poetry at Morecambe was conceived out of a conversation between poet Des Mannay and festival organiser Matt Panesh. Following their discussion about the scene in Wales, Matt decided he wanted a showcase of Welsh poets at the festival and that’s how I became involved.
“Taking part in such a prominent event will of course be a wonderful experience but it will also be an opportunity to share ideas and information. I’m very much looking forward to sharing my experiences at the festival with my students when I return to campus.”
The Creative Writing programmes at UWTSD are informed by the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) definition of the subject. Dominic Williams added:
“Our Creative Programmes are designed to nurture creative writers and to facilitate the creation of new works in a supportive but critical community. Students have an opportunity to develop their practice with modules that heighten creative and critical awareness of the elements and techniques of effective writing.
“We introduce poetry, prose, and drama in year one and broaden the focus in the second and third years to nurture the writing of voice, form, and place. These core skills – writing, research and editing – are supplemented by modules that introduce you to the worlds of publication and performance, enabling you to develop an understanding of the career prospects for writers in the creative industries and the application of writing skills in administrative and entrepreneurial contexts.”
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