An Evening with Rowan Williams, Friday 2 October 7.30pm, Savoy Theatre, Monmouth doors open 7pm.
Rowan Williams returns to Monmouth for a special evening hosted by poet Pele Cox. Rowan will reflect on his life and work, sharing readings from his own poetry as well as pieces that have inspired him. Following a short interval, there will be an opportunity for audience questions.
All proceeds go towards the Lower Wye Valley Building Preservation Trust’s purchase and consolidation of St Mary’s, a seriously at risk, scheduled monument and Grade II listed landmark ruin that is in an ecclesiastical grouping with, and overlooks, Tintern Abbey.
Rowan Williams is a former Bishop of Monmouth, and for a decade, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury. He has taught theology in several universities and has written widely on theology, philosophy and contemporary issues. His poetry collections and anthologies include A Century of Poetry, The Other Mountain, The Collected Poems of Rowan Williams and After Silent Centuries.
Pele Cox has been the poet in residence at Tate Modern, Royal Academy of Arts, British School at Rome, and Keats-Shelley House in Rome. She is the co-host of Pele’s Poetry Podcast with the BBC journalist Richard Uridge, and has written poetry-based performances for exhibitions at the Royal Academy and Courtauld Institute. In 2019 she was commissioned by Eric Parry Architects to compose ‘Cento’, on 1 Grenadier Gardens, Chelsea, perhaps the longest verse inscription in the West.
This uplifting event celebrates the enduring connection between poetry, nature and spirituality. It will help two charitable trusts concerned with heritage – LWVBPT and the Savoy Theatre Trust – Wales’ oldest theatre, now community run.
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