Spring 2026 / The Lyric

An issue to retreat to, recharge in, and rediscover what sustains us and keeps us moving forward.

With work by Arthur Sze, Hanan Issa, Abeer Ameer, Daniel Sluman and Andrew McNeillie.

It's green o'clock, a year of Mays

Join Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch on publication day to celebrate the first launch ofher new poetry collection, ‘Milk Wood Memoir’ at Pen'rallt Gallery Bookshop in Machynlleth at 1.30 pm on Thursday 7th May followed by tea and cake.

Join us for this sociable book event with poet Matthew Francis, who’ll read from his newest volume of poetry, ‘The Green Month’, a collection of short English-language poems offering a contemporary reimagining of the work of Dafydd ap Gwilym — the 14th-century Ceredigion-born bard widely regarded as Wales’s greatest poet.

at Pen'rallt Gallery Bookshop, Machynlleth, on Thursday 14th May.
Free refreshments from 6pm, Event: 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Join Carwyn Graves, at this Machynlleth launch of his much anticipated new book, ‘Cynefin: Wisdom from a Thousand Years of Welsh Nature Poetry’, as he explores how the Welsh poetic tradition and works of Taliesin, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Gwerful Mechain, John Dyer, TH Parry Williams, Dic Jones, Manon Awst, RS Thomas, and more, offer a different view of nature and connecting to our place in the world, and demonstrate its power to help us address the challenges we face.  

ticket price: £3 in advance

Dreena Collins has devised two writing workshops appealing to a range of experiences.

A morning workshop - Poetry Redacted - Uncovering new themes and voices amongst familiar words 

An afternoon workshop - 'The Testimony She Never Gave – a workshop for writers'

And, at the day’s satisfying close, Dreena will treat us to a reading from her new novel, Perotine, published by Blue Ormer, published on 21 April 2026.

Make a day of it, or come along to one session.