Join poet Laura Wainwright and writer Carwyn Graves in discussion about their personal observations of land, place and the written word in relation to their direct locality, people and language.  

 And working with those serendipitous moments that occur when your attention expands outwards. 

Chaired by Kim Norton, one of the exhibiting artists from Crywdro/Wanderings: Detours and Digressions.  

Saturday 23 May 2026

13:30 - 15:00

£5.00

Laura Wainwright was born in Cardiff and grew up in Newport, Gwent, where she still lives. She attended school in Newport, and Cardiff University where she attained a BA, MA and PhD in English Literature. Her PhD thesis focused on Anglophone Welsh literature and was later published as New Territories in Modernism: Anglophone Welsh Writing, 1930-1949 by the University of Wales Press. Laura has also published poetry pamphlets, Air and Armour (Green Bottle Press, 2021) – the outcome of a Literature Wales Writer’s Bursary – and Coedcernyw: among other things (Clutag Press, 2023). Thrall: Poems and Art, a collaboration with Robert Minhinnick featuring Laura’s poetry and artwork, was published in February 2025 by Seventh Quarry Press. Her poetry collection, The Storm’s Flora, was published in October 2025 by Seren.  

Carwyn Graves is an author, public speaker, gardener and father to three children from Wales. Author of the bestselling Apples of Wales (2018), Welsh Food Stories (2022), Tir: The Story of the Welsh Landscape (2024) and now Cynefin(2026). Co-founder of new Welsh charity, Cegin y Bobl (The People’s Kitchen). He is heavily involved with apple conservation local to Carmarthen.

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