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Three acclaimed poets are to hold an evening of poetry reading to showcase their talent and honour their native languages, Irish and Welsh<\/b><\/h2>\n
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The event will be held at The Flute and Tankard, just off Windsor Place, on Monday 3 December. Invited to read are two poets from Ireland, Celia de Fr\u00e9ine, who has received many awards for both her English and Irish work and Aifric Mac Aodha, who writes exclusively in Irish. Welsh poet Ll\u0177r Gwyn Lewis, winner of the 2015 Wales Book of the Year Award in creative non-fiction, will also participate. <\/span><\/p>\n

The event initially arose from a collaboration between two Irish associations, Poetry Ireland and Culture Ireland. They sponsor poetry readings in the UK through a program called Poets in the Cities and aim to promote Irish language, culture and tradition. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ailbhe Darcy, the organiser of the event in Cardiff, decided to invite\u00a0Ll\u0177r to start a conversation on the similarities and differences between Welsh and Irish poetry. She explains, \u201cOne obvious similarity is this fact of bilingualism. Contemporary Irish poetry takes place in two languages, just like Welsh poetry.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

But she says that the poetry may also belong to two very separate traditions, influenced by different environments. \u201c<\/span>I\u2019m interested in how these brilliant thinkers approach questions like these about language, nationality and tradition,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The poetry will be mostly read in either Irish or Welsh, with some English translations available. Ll\u0177r says you don\u2019t have to understand the words to appreciate them, \u201cPoetry is close music and it can be listened to in the same way,\u201d he says, \u201cFor example, with Cynghanedd verses, alliterations and rhyme are very important and everyone can hear those sounds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ailbhe, who is herself an Irish poet living in Wales, says the best poetry provokes new thought in listeners and poems in different languages may do this in unexpected ways.<\/span><\/p>\n

She hopes the event will interest many people, \u201cIt might even lead to some new poetry!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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