The Broken Spine Poetry Showcase Tickets

Join us for an evening of poetry showcasing poets from The Broken Spine press. 

When: 9/4/25 18:30 start (doors 18:10)

Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL

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There will be limited books available to buy at the event. 

About the books:

Modest Raptures is a captivating collection of poems that invites you to journey through the seasons, emotions, and observations of everyday life. With lyrical grace, Rees weaves a tapestry of moments, each piece capturing a glimpse of the world’s intricate beauty and the subtle mysteries that surround us.

Empty Trains looks at the notion of spaces altering to accommodate changes introduced during the pandemic. While avoiding the pitfalls of Covid poetry, Sandifer-Smith deftly traces the poetics of space into a contemporary setting. Empty Trains does more than offer a frame through which to view such spaces: it challenges us to look at the spaces in which we live, work, and think with fresh eyes.

Dawn's Incision involves a deep journey into the self composed as a set of poetic motifs exploring  love, its loss, and personal renewal, through its intricate prismatic lens on nature, self-ecosystems, the interior heart, the domestic and feral spaces in which we meet, engage, love, communicate, lose sight of connection, and curl inwards in grief and self-interrogation, in the attempt to re-emerge, altered but buoyed up into new healing modalities.

Step inside the heart of the kitchen with Debone & Fold, a searing and evocative poetry collection by Si Griffiths. These poems slice through the heat, pace, and pressure of the commercial kitchen, capturing the grit, camaraderie, and passion of those who work behind the pass. With language that is immediate, visceral, and rich in metaphor, Griffiths explores the unseen labour behind every plated dish, blending the brutality of kitchen life with moments of tenderness, love, and connection.

About the poets:

David Hanlon is a poet from Cardiff, Wales. You can find his work in many magazines and journals, including Rust & Moth, The Lumiere Review & trampset. His first full-length collection, Dawn's Incision,  was recently published by Icefloe Press. 

Ellie Rees is an in award-winning writer who writes across many genres including poetry, creative non-fiction and memoir. Her work is widely published in various journals including: New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Cabinet of Heed, The Lonely Crowd, The Broken Spine Artist Collective and Black Bough Poetry. Ellie’s work appears regularly online for Top Tweet Tuesday and she is twice a Pushcart Prize nominated poet. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University. Ellie’s first collection of poetry, Ticking was published by the Hedgehog Poetry Press in January 2022, and her second book, Modest Raptures, was The Broken Spine’s inaugural Chapbook Competition winner in 2023 

George Sandifer-Smith is a Welsh poet, with two books published, Empty Trains (Broken Sleep Books) and Nights Travel at the Right Speed (Infinity Books). His poems have been nominated for the Best of the Net Award, Pushcart Prize, and the Broken Spine Readers’ Choice Award.

Si Griffiths, recently a part of Literature Wales’ flagship professional development programme for under-represented writers, Representing Wales 2024-2025. Nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize. Poems forthcoming with Poetry Wales 60.3 | Spring 2025 | New Welsh Poets and Arachne Press’s Afonydd - Poems for Welsh Rivers anthology, edited by Sian Northey and Ness Owen.