Time: 7pm
Location : Ty Tawe, Christina Street, Swansea
Tutor: Robat Powel
Organised by the Department of Continuing Adult Education at Swansea University, and run by theWelsh poet Robat Powel; the first Welsh learner to win the National Eisteddfod Chair. Robat believes that the new course will fill a large gap in the area's Welsh language cultural life:
"For over a quarter of a century, cynghanedd classes have become increasingly popular all over Wales and some have produced some of our most accomplished national poets – Mererid Hopwood for example.
"Swansea has been lacking a class of this sort since the Nineties and I know of some people that travel to classes in Carmarthen. It's high time therefore that we started a cynghanedd course in the area - and perhaps we will produce new poets to win the National prizes!"
The course will be practical one; with an emphasis in creating and writing poetry as opposed to analysis and interpretation. After only ten weeks of exercises and studying examples of the finest strict metre poems, the aim will be to compose an englyn or cywydd.
For more information please telephone +44 (0)1792 295766 or email addysg.oedolion@abertawe.ac.uk