An evening with… Patrick Jones and Steve Logan

Join us for an evening with Patrick Jones – poet, playwright, spoken word artist and musician – who will be joined by poet and rock musician, Steve Logan. The evening will feature poetry readings and discussion around cultural solidarity, cultural displacement and hiraeth; and there will be a short acoustic music set from Steve Logan.

There will be the opportunity to get books signed and books are available as part of the ticket options at a special discounted rate. Books will also be available to buy on the night. All tickets include a glass of wine or a soft drink and there will also be a paid bar.

Patrick will be reading from his recent poetry collections Fuse/Fracture, Inviting the Light and A Constellation of Sorrows. Ranging from deeply personal poems exploring grief, loss, trauma, healing and recovery, alongside verses documenting social injustices, Israel’s war on Gaza, the cost of living crisis, hope, inequality and transformation.

“Very powerful stuff’ Harold Pinter

“These poems engage and enrage” Peter Tatchell

 “Patrick’s words offer both a powerful exhalation of beauty and a place of sanctuary in these uncertain times. it is a collection that speaks to our current state of disunion as a species. A balm for the soul” Catherine Anne Davies aka The Anchoress

“Patrick harbours both love and rage in these/his words but also manifest within is a beautiful hope and reminder of our shared humanity” Martyn Joseph

Steve will be reading from his recent poetry collection Heartlands and playing music from his new album Psych Ward.

“Clearly you’ve got a story to tell” Seamus Heaney

“The sound is both rich and tight-knit, all held together by Logan’s vocal which delivers his imagery-laden lyrics with both the ferocious tone of a punk poet and the melodic sense of a top 40 rock record” Folking.com

“Steve Logan is a lifer in this game. One of those artists who is in it because he loves it and crucially has something to say. Psych Ward is crazy good” Andy Thorley, Maximum Volume Music

About Patrick Jones
Patrick Jones was born in Tredegar in 1965. Jones set up the Blackwood Young Writers Group based at the Blackwood Miners Institute in 1993. He taught Adult Literacy at Blackwood Community College and the Ebbw Vale Institute. Jones is active in setting up various reading and writing workshops throughout Wales from schools to youth centres. He has also worked  as the Creative Literacy Worker for the Cynon Project, been a writer in residence at Swansea College, and a writer in residence with The Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales. He has worked in collaboration with Hafan Cymru, Ty Hapus, Literature Wales, and The Welsh National Opera.

To find out more about Patrick and his work visit www.patrick-jones.info

About Steve Logan
Steve Logan grew up in Pontymister in the South Wales valleys. He is a poet and rock musician. He has held appointments in English at the universities of Oxford, Cardiff and Cambridge. His sixth album, Psych Ward, was released in 2023. He is working on its successor, Handbook for Lost Souls. His new book of poems, Heartlands, was published in 2024. The poems in Heartlands are written in a vulnerable, open and accessible style, as an act of homage to the people who taught him, among much else, to love language and music. There will be a new book of poems, Inside Stories, next year.

To find out more about Steve and his work visit www.stevelogan.co.uk