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To help your Christmas shopping dilemmas, Chapter One manager Lorna and her trusty team of booksellers have come up with some recommendations. STOP PRESS: We’ve late night opening until 8pm on Friday, 5th December. Bar open too! Books For Children Ideal for 2-5 year olds, a new rhyming book from the much-loved Michael Rosen and
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Our Christmas themed Book Bar, takes place on Thursday, December 11th at 6pm. Tickets at £5 available here. You can look forward to mulled wine, mince pies, a reading of Richard Burton’s Christmas story plus poetry from our Great Welsh Icon competition poets. We’ll be celebrating Princess Nest, the Welsh dragon, the Preselis, Richard Burton,
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Hello there, and to accompany the Richard Burton exhibition currently running at Narberth Museum, we’re running a poetry competition, on the theme of ‘My Great Welsh Icon’. So if you’re inspired to write a poem to a leek, daffodil, dragon, Nye Bevan or Charlotte Church, we would love to hear from you. All entries will
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The Chapter One Book Bar is back and this time we’re celebrating all things midsummer. In the spirit of the Welsh tradition of Gathering Day where medicinal herbs were collected, we’re collecting and sharing stories as a tonic for the soul. Ever heard the story of Blodeuwedd? Or wondered whether the Tylwth Teg (mischievous fairies)
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We had our final Local Writing For Wellbeing workshop last Tuesday, with the theme of community. Lorna steered us to create a group poem based on what we’d written in previous sessions, and any inspiration which had come from us writing new labels for objects in the museums. I don’t think any of us anticipated
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It’s hard to imagine a better setting than a bookshop in a museum for our most recent writing workshop on local stories. Lorna has done some fascinating research into the history of printing in Narberth, resulting in this discovery about Boris Pasternak’s first edition of ‘Doctor Zhivago’. And this broadened out into a discussion of
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Our fourth session led by Lorna, was an absolute cracker, as we writers could not stop ourselves from telling stories. We identified how important stories are in shaping beliefs, morality and how we make sense of the world. We looked at tiny stories, powerful stories we’d been told and why stories get repeated. By chance,
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With the Cookbook Club at Chapter One proving popular, cookbooks have been on my mind here, with thoughts like ‘ Are they a wanton extravagance with so many recipes online in various forms?’ and ‘But isn’t it joyous to flick through a cookbook at your leisure, enjoying photos, assessing ingredients and imagining pleasure from the
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In this fascinating session, Lorna encouraged we writers to consider senses beyond the usual sight, sense, taste, touch, hearing. She introduced interoception: our internal messages between brain and organs like of hunger, temperature and pain. She described our vestibular sense of movement and balance, and proprioception, or how our body relates to and in the
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