An evening of history and dramatic performance with Historian Norena Shopland and what we will call her ‘Society of Friends’.
The evening will introduce and celebrate Katherine Philips, the 17th-century Anglo-Welsh poet known as the "Welsh Sappho”. Philipps is the subject of Shopland’s new biography, My Love All Love Excels: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Philips (Parthian Books).
Katherine, described as a Sapphist, has many accolades – the first woman to have a play commercially produced; a seventeenth-century Civil War poet of distinction; someone who broke the rules of poetry; one of the first notable female poets in the world; one of the first to write of same-sex attraction, the list goes on.
Katherine’s extraordinary story will be brought to life with poetry readings, songs and talks that will amuse and amaze, and will show why Katherine Philips must be regarded as one of Wales’ best poets.
An English language event. FREE!