NEWPORT: Arthur Machen's Birthplace

SAT 6TH JUL, 2013 7.30pm

Goff will be reading some of Arthur Machen's work that has a local connection.

Goff was born in Newport, trained at the Welsh college of Music and Drama as an actor and has worked as a freelance tutor in Drama and Voice & Speech in Newport Drama Studio. Since the 1990s he has regularly worked as a broadcast poet for BBC Radio, and has presented two short social history programmes of his own. In 1992 he won the One Voice Monologue competition in the Swansea Grand Theatre and in the late nineties co-wrote Dai Namik Superhero, a 16 episode comedy serial for BBC Radio Wales.

In 1997 Goff was created Newport Town Poet, the only official town poet in Wales. The post finished officially in 2000, but he has never really gone away. He currently teaches Drama and Community Studies for adults with learning difficulties with Newport Community Education, and Creative Writing for UWCN.

His latest book, 'A Spot of Bother and Other Poems' was published in 2012.

**Because of the venue size, tickets are limited to 20. If demand outstrips supply a further evening could be arranged**