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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE
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lloyd robson by gill griffiths © parthian
books 2002
Welsh “New Wave” writer, Lloyd Robson has announced the itinerary for his U.S. Tour scheduled in October 2002. Robson, who’s recent “stream-of-consciousness” poetry collection, Cardiff Cut (Parthian Books, ISBN 1-902638-16-6) has been called “James Joyce for a wider audience,” will perform at popular venues in New York City with limited engagements. Complete details of Lloyd Robson's U.S. tour are available at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/lloydrobson Robson is prominent among the Welsh artists who have been performing in the U.S. to increasingly larger audiences, for the last several years. There has been a cultural renaissance in the small country Wales, which devolved from England in 1999 with its first, independent parliament in over six hundred years, (the Welsh National Assembly). Wales is bilingual, with both English and Welsh spoken. Robson's poetry is written in English, but with a contagious and unmistakable, Welsh accent and vernacular, called by one critic, “the reinvigoration of a stulified language.” Mark Woods, of Miami, Florida, says Robson will make several television appearances while in New York, and will record an interview for N.Y.C. Educational Radio Station WNYE-FM. Woods says “interest by Welsh-Americans in their heritage, coupled with the expanded confidence of Welsh artists in post-devolution Wales is creating a popular cultural exchange with the U.S.” Mark Woods explains, “With their recently-devolved National Assembly, the magical country of Wales is about to capture the imagination of America once again. From actor Catherine Zeta Jones, to poet Peter Finch, to the ‘irreverent, bona fide, diva queen of U.K. pop group Catatonia,’ Cerys Matthews, the ‘next British Invasion’ is going to be decidedly Celtic.” Woods provides marketing direction to several Welsh writers, visual artists, and film production companies. Woods explains the newest, American obsession with Welsh celebrities: “Riding the crest of newly-enhanced independence, a wave of artists, writers, rock stars and film makers from Wales is celebrating a Trans-Atlantic Love Affair, the like not seen since Dylan Thomas.” Woods says a recent peak of the “New Wave” of Welsh artists in America was the “UkwithNY Festival” which took place in Manhattan shortly after the “9/11 attacks.” Woods reports that, “even after the program of events was reduced in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Towers, ‘UkwithNY’ was the largest international initiative launched in New York City for almost 20 years.” Various dates of the Lloyd Robson U.S. Tour 2002 are still available for booking by selected presenters. Robson appears on stage performing a one-man monologue of his most popular writing. For information contact Lloyd Robson. For additional information about Welsh “New Wave” artists, visit the American Sinema Cymru (Cinema Wales) web site http://www.marklesliewoods.com © 2002 Mark Leslie Woods, Miami Beach, Florida. Mark
Leslie Woods “This time, like all others, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau “Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” — David Lloyd George PLEASE VISIT OTHER RECOMMENDED WELSH SITES:
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