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The big blooming fair – Sat 26th Aug 10-4pm
I will be having a book stall at this event Saturday 26th August 10-4pm Rhydlewis SA44 5QH
Red Poets Launch / Lansiad Beirdd Cochion Sat 9 Sept 1:30
I’ll be one of 20 or so magazine contributors who’ll be reading at the launch of Red Poets magazine, issue 29 From 1.30pm In Caffi Soar, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 8UB On Saturday 9th September

Art on Troubled Waters – Friday 8th Sept 6-9pm
Private Viewing Friday 8th Sept 6pm – 9pm
A reading by Simone Mansell-Broome of her new poem ‘An Elegy, A Song’ (local award-winning, published poet) and a performance of a specially written song by Piers Partridge & River Matthews ‘Leave Them a River’.

Falafels, some frogs and a ferret preview
The title of Simone's new memoir to be published soon by Cambria publishing. Here is a sneak preview of part of the cover....

Notions of Hiraeth
You are cordially invited to an evening ofpoetry and writing related to the Welsh word Hiraethat The Seagull on Wednesday 12 April6pm to 7.30pm. Simone will be reading her poem specially commissioned for the event; ‘For him there was no longing’

‘A cwtch in Kyrenia’ book launch
Book Launch of Simone's new slim volume of observational, narrative poems, based on a lost-and-found notebook, a journal of a trip to Kyrenia, re-discovered late in 2022.’ Sunday 2nd April 2:30-4:00 pm at the Pole Barn, Ceridwen Centre