Under a Turbulent Sky: perspectives on a great British photographer - Fay Godwin (1931 - 2005)
The work in this exhibition of Fay Godwin's landscape photography, begun in the mid 1970s, coincided with an increasing public awareness of serious environmental issues facing Britain at that time, particularly pollution.
Also, her own passionate interest in walking, public access to and the neglect of the British landscape and the livelihoods of those who depended upon it, ensured that her work was both relevant and well informed. She and her camera would become a witness to what was then, and still is, taking place.
POSTPONED! - workshops, author reading and book signing with Dreena Collins
POSTPONED - with our apologies
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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.
Cynefin: Wisdom from a Thousand Years of Welsh Nature Poetry with author Carwyn Graves
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
The Green Month with poet Matthew Francis
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
milk wood memoir
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.
launch get-together with POETRY WALES
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.
Under a Turbulent Sky - Fay Godwin - Exhibition Opening
‘Under a Turbulent Sky’ - 27 new prints of the landscape work of Fay Godwin will be opened on 25 April 2026 by Peter Cattrell. The work will be spread across our two exhibiting spaces, the bookshop and Ffotogaleri y gofeb. We hope that you will join us, if not on that day some time over the summer and autumn of 2026.
at your Town Library - Emma Rea introduces 'Entangled'
We’ve invited one of our favourite children’s authors and yours, to visit Machynlleth Town Library for Easter.
Emma’s new book ‘Entangled’ is funny, exciting, full of action and adventure and set in Venice!
If you enjoyed Emma’s, ‘Top Dog’ and ‘My Name Is River’, you need to come and join us! Bring your friends!
ALED RHYS HUGHES IN CONVERSATION / mewn sgwrs
Reframing the landscape / Ail-fframio’r tirlun
The Dolgarrog tragedy started here in Cwm Eigiau and it is here that Aled Rhys Hughes has made a series of photographs over a period of thirty years.
Our conversation with Aled will look at the way he has been able to apply his technical mastery of large format photography, a technology going back almost 200 years, (here combined with drone photography) to issues relevant to contemporary Wales.
Aled Rhys Hughes’s exhibition, ‘Cwm Eigiau - Y Wal Heb Sylfaen / The Wall Without Foundation’ (2025), marks a century since the Dolgarrog dam disaster.
This event is free
Refreshments and a final opportunity to view the exhibition from 11.00