WELCOME in the Spring – at last – with an evening of subtle, powerful, wordsmithery from several award-winning poets, interwoven with stunning live music.

Spring on the Horizon is a unique collaboration with leading poets and the acclaimed cellist Daniel Davies, who will play a range of short pieces, both improvised and classical.

Originally scheduled for March 1, but postponed because of the effects of ‘the beast from the east’, the event is now on Thursday, April 19, at 7.30pm in Neuadd y Dderwen, Rhosygilwen.

Cellist Daniel Davies studied at both the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He maintains a busy teaching practice in west Wales and also performs solo recitals, concerto performances, improvisation and composition projects and chamber music.

There will be four poets to share a variety of their work on the night.

Paul Steffan Jones, who was born in Cardigan, writes in both Welsh and English. He has two poetry collections published by Starborn Books, Lull of The Bull and The Trigger-Happiness. He was winner of the 2012 West Coast Eisteddfod Online Poetry Competition.

Kittie Belltree’s poetry has been published in a range of print and online journals including Poetry Wales, Under the Radar and The North. A selection of her poems was shortlisted for the Venture Award 2015, while individual poems have been highly commended in The Penfro Book Festival Poetry Competitions 2015 and 2016, The Camden and Lumen Poetry Competition 2016 and The Welsh International Poetry Competition 2017.

Ron Geaves has been writing, publishing and performing poetry since the 1980s, most recently appearing at the Bradford Literature Festival along with Ben Okri and others in a session entitled Modern Mystical Poets. His first single-authored collection of poems, Rumi Weeds, was published in 2017 by Beacon Press.

Maggie Harris, who comes originally from Guyana, has won The Guyana Prize for Literature, is Caribbean Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and winner of the Kent University TS Eliot Poetry Prize.

Tickets (£8) are available from rhosygilwen.co.uk/events/spring-horizon-poetry-cello-st-davids-day