The return of Griffin Books' Poetry Showcase, hosted by Penarth-based poet Stephen Payne. Stephen will be joined by poets Abeer Ameer, John Freeman and Susie Wild and musician Ben Wildsmith for a brilliant event of poetry and music to bring an end to Penarth Literary Festival 2022.

Abeer Ameer grew up in Cardiff. She originally trained as a dentist in London and completed her Membership of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons in Edinburgh. She has an MSc in Conscious Sedation in Dentistry from Cardiff University, developing an interest in treatment of anxious patients and patients with special needs. Abeer's poems have appeared widely in print and online journals and anthologies including Acumen, Poetry Wales, Planet, Magma, Red Poets and many more.

John Freeman was born in Essex, grew up in south London, studied in Cambridge and lived in Yorkshire before moving to Wales, where for many years he taught English Literature and Creative Writing at Cardiff University. He lives in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Worple published A Suite for Summer in 2007, followed in 2016 by What Possessed Me, which won the Roland Matthias Award and the poetry section of the Wales Book of the Year awards in 2017. Other collections include The Light Is Of Love, I Think: New and Selected Poems (Stride), and Landscape With Portraits (Redbeck).

Susie Wild is a poet, writer, journalist, critic, lecturer, festival organiser and editor based in Cardiff. Her second poetry collection Windfalls is out now through Parthian Books. The Art of Contraception was her first book. It was long-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2011 and won 'Fiction Book of the Year' in the Welsh Icons Awards 2010. She is Publishing Editor at one of Wales' Leading Indie Publishers, Parthian Books.

Ben Wildsmith is a musician, writer, rugby journalist and support worker based in Wales. You can follow him on Twitter @brumsongsben .

Sunday, June 26 at 19:30. Tickets: £5.00 BOOK NOW: ticketsource.co.uk/griffinbooks