Harry Gilonis is a poet, editor, publisher, and (occasionally) critic. Much of his work is inter-textual, involving widely-varying modes of translation and mis-translation, straight and skewed. One of the core literatures he has worked with is Old Welsh, and he will be reading from collaborative work with Rhys Trimble, as well as an extended sequence, unHealed, derived from the Canu Heledd (Songs of Heledd) — the manuscript in which that survives used to be up the road in Jesus College. He has read at Taigh Chearsabhagh on North Uist, An Lanntair on Lewis, and at the Pier Art Centre in Stromness, Orkney, as well as in Swansea, Cork, New York, Cambridge, and London, and has been published widely, including on the lawn of London’s Serpentine Gallery; recent poetry publications include Rough Breathing, a Selected Poems out this year from Carcanet; this reading is its Oxford launch.

Rhys Trimble is a bilingual poet, performer, performance artist, text artist, visual artist, musician, editor, critic, and shaman. He is interested in avant garde poetry, art, and music, and its parallels in Welsh/ancient artforms, also poetry and visual image as ritual. Rhys is the author of twelve or more books of poetry and Vispo, and is the vocalist in the noise punk band Lolfa Binc. You can find more on Rhys' work on his website, here.