1.30 

Opening of the celebrations
Gillian Clarke, President of Tŷ Newydd and Arwel Jones, Chair of the Taliesin Trust.

2.00

The Laureates
Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Mererid Hopwood.

3.00

Translators’ House Wales presents

Gillian Clarke and Menna Elfyn read and discuss their translations of each other’s poems.

Welsh and Panjabi poetry: Menna Elfyn and Mazhar Tirmazi, the Pakistani born Panjabi poet, read and talk about their poetry.

Presentation to the English language winner of the Translators’ House Wales Oxfam 2010 Challenge.

4.00

Tea

4.30

Cynghanedd (Welsh language event)
Karen Owen asks 5 generations of Welsh poets what inspired them to write cynghanedd  (simultaneous translation available).

6.00 

Launch of ‘The Listening Shell’
An Anthology of Poems for Tŷ Newydd.

9.15

Moths and Fungi:
Nigel Brown discovers what kind of moths have been caught in the overnight traps. Followed by launch of Natur Cymru’s writing competition – ‘Inspired by Nature’.

10.00

Nature Walk (English) with Nigel Brown
Fungus Foray (Welsh) with Cynan Jones

12.00

Writing the Landscape
Jim Perrin & Niall Griffiths read and discuss their work.

12.00

‘Fy Lôn Wen I’ (Welsh language event)
5 personal presentations in verse, prose, music and song to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Dr Kate Roberts, the ‘Queen of Welsh literature’.