TOP performer and poet Karen Gemma Brewer will be launching her latest book at Cardigan’s Cellar Bards next week.

She’ll begin her promotional tour for her new collection ‘Dancing in the Sun’ at Cardigan’s only regular spoken word event on Friday, September 16.

A two-time winner of the Tim Williams Performance Poetry Award, Karen has toured two one-woman shows – Seeds From A Dandelion (2017) and Dissident Sausage (2019), performed and acted on film, TV, radio and stage, at festivals, theatres, pubs, clubs, supermarkets, shops, colleges, schools and in the street.

Her writing combines emotion and mundanity with a strong sense of the absurd, has been published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, Europe and USA and translated into Welsh, Italian and Romanian.

‘Dancing In The Sun’ is Karen’s second collection of poems, her first, ‘Seeds From A Dandelion’ (2017) was re-issued in 2021. She is editor of ‘Write It Out - new LGBTQ+ writing from Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire’ (2019).

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A first collection of short stories, ‘From Mars To Cilcennin’ is due in 2023.

Cellar Bards co-organiser Jackie Biggs said: “This accomplished new collection of poetry from Karen Gemma Brewer is a brilliant mix of sharp wit, irony, gentle humour and moments of laugh-out-loud hilarity, all adroitly merged with serious takes on some of the most disturbing problems of our time.”

Doors open at 7.30pm at the Cellar Bar, Quay Street, Cardigan, SA43 1HU. Entry is £3. People can sign up on the door for open mic slots.