A fantastic night of tender and heartrending poetry and music.

Please join us for welsh poet David Hanlon’s book launch for his first full-length poetry collection “Dawn’s Incision”. A tale of romantic love and loss and the grief and healing that ensues in the wake of a break-up.

Enjoy music by Tara Lowe and Eugene Capper.

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“In this exquisite collection of poems, David Hanlon explores a landscape of love in its glorious blooming, plummeting descent, and the flight that can only be felt in true reawakening.  This is poetry written with unmasked vulnerability and tenderness, crafted with language that is striking and unforgettable. David’s poems are a journey of the heart, mind and body, tied in a beautiful and visceral rhythm to the fragility of nature. They are an intricate unveiling and a triumph of discovery. There is pain in these pages, yes, but even in its darkest moments, Dawn’s Incision offers slices of light that leave your heart feeling open, accepting and ultimately full.”

– Susan Richardson, author of Things My Mother Left Behind and Tiger Lily.

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Tara Lowe

Based in Madrid since 2011, Cardiff-born vocalist Tara Lowe has led and collaborated in diverse musical projects for just over a decade. In 2014, she became frontwoman and co-lyricist for the gypsy jazz-pop-folk fusion band Forasteros, before going on to release her debut EP ‘Hot Life’ (Youkali Music) with her jazz and swing septet Tara & The Jazz Bombs in 2020. She’s currently studying a Masters in Jazz and Modern Music at La Rioja International University. Returning to her soloist/singer-songwriter roots, Tara will perform a selection of lovingly arranged covers with a jazzy twist and some originals. Expect a playful live set of musings on love and mental health, lots of soul-searching, and a lol or two. Or three.

Eugene Capper

Musician, sound designer and sound artist, Eugene Capper has worked and performed with the likes of Richard James, The Gentle Good, Girl Ray, Ivan Moult and Teddy Hunter. Their album ‘Pontvane’ with Rhodri Brooks was shortlisted for a Welsh Music Prize and last year they were commissioned by the Greenman Trust to score a film with artist Kathryn Ashill titled ‘Gunsmoke City.’

David Hanlon

David Hanlon is a Björk-loving confessional poet from Cardiff, Wales. His work explores themes of queerness, toxic masculinity, love, loss and mental health. He is a Best of the Net nominee and Co-Poetry Editor at Broken Spine Arts. He is widely published and his debut chapbook Spectrum of Flight was released in 2020 with Animal Heart Press. His first full-length collection Dawn’s Incision was recently published with Icefloe Press.