Poetry As Protest Exhibition

From Wednesday 2nd July to 1st October, Narberth Museum is hosting Poetry as Protest, an exhibition from Narberth Poets & Friends that brings together poetry and visual art to show ‘Resistance is Fertile’.

Join us at Narberth Museum on Friday 4th July to celebrate the opening. The launch begins at 6pm and entry is free.

Please note, outside of the launch entry to the exhibition is the cost of museum entrance and includes access to our collections. For museum entry information click here.

The poets featured are:

Jackie Biggs has had three collections of her poetry published and her work appears in many anthologies. She performs her poetry at spoken word events all over west Wales. She is currently working on a new collection of poems related to the climate crisis. 

Her poetry blog is here: http://jackie-news.blogspot.co.uk

Jean Riley performed in Shoreditch (south Asian dance/spoken word), and in Gloucestershire enabled elderly people to find their poetry voice. Her work appears in Envoi, Obsessed with Pipework, Mslexia, Under the Radar, The Rialto, Poetry Salzburg and Poetry Ireland Reviews. In Pembrokeshire she enjoys co-exhibiting on issues close to her heart. 

Christian Donovan retired about two years ago from work as a guide at Carew Castle, where she enjoyed telling stories. She now has more time to write and has had a scattering of poems published, mostly online.

Jane Campbell’s debut collection Slowly as Clouds won the Geoff Stevens Prize 2021. Jane won the Disability Arts Cymru Creative Writing Award 2022. Amongst other places her poems appear in Poetry Wales, Ink, Sweat & Tears and Black Bough. Collaborating with quiltmaker Sarah-Joy Ford several poems are currently displayed at The Whittaker Museum. 

@jane_campbell_poet

Bean Sawyer is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and poet in her fourth year of a Creative Writing MA with UWTSD. Bean is a part-time Stained-Glass tutor with Pembrokeshire Lifelong Learners and runs a postal poetry project, The Murmuration of Words, exhibited at Oriel y Parc, St Davids last year.

https://www.artisanrising.co.uk/

Emma Baines has published in magazines and anthologies and translates for Menna Elfyn. She is interested in how poetry can reach people through visual art, film poetry and enriching public spaces. She is working on her first collection and her translations will feature in ‘Parch’ with Bloodaxe in October.