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METAGEUM '07
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Story telling, on board the Fernandes II
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About Kevan Manwaring
Kevan Manwaring is a poet, storyteller writer and teacher, who has been performing his words for over a decade in venues across across Britain and abroad.
'Tallyessin' is Kevan's bardic stage-name - inspired by the Sixth Century Welsh bard and semi-mythic Taliesin. (Kevan spells his version phonetically to avoid confusion and to highlight the fact he does not think he is the Taliesin!). He wishes to honour the memory and wisdom of the Chief Bard of the West in his words and deeds, keeping Taliesin's name alive.
Tallyessin's numerous appearances include slots at the Glastonbury Festival, Bath Literature Festival, Bristol Poetry Festival as well as further afield - Witchfest UK, Royal Armouries Museum Leeds, and Rhode Island USA. He has performed live on BBC Breakfast TV in a Bath Spa special. In 1999 he was awarded the Bardic Chair of Bath for his epic poem Spring Fall - the Legend of Sulis and Bladud of Bath. With Fire Springs Storytellers he has co-created and performed in major shows including Arthur’s Dream,Robin of the Wildwood and Return to Arcadia.
Holder of an MA in the Teaching & Practice of Creative Writing, from Cardiff University, Tallyessin has been running creative-writing and performance workshops for all ages since establishing Tallyessin Training in 2000 with a Prince’s Trust Loan. He has worked with, and performed for a wide range of audiences from primary school children to senior citizens!
In 2003 he edited Writing the Land - an anthology of natural words, after receiving a Reading Families Millennium Award.
Many of his poems and reviews have been published in various anthologies and magazines. His novel The Long Woman was published in 2004, receiving an Arts Council Award for a month-long literary tour, on which Kevan gave readings in many of the book's locations throughout England. He currently teaches creative writing for the University of Bath and the Open University.
In 2004 he began to run bardic weekend workshops (Way of Awen) and in 2005 established The Silver Branch Bardic Network. The Bardic Handbook: the complete manual for the 21st Century Bard was published in June 2006 by Gothic Image. His latest novel, Windsmith (published by Sulis Underground under the Awen imprint) has just come out, and is being toured throughout Winter 2006 into 2007.
He lives in Bath and likes getting his feet muddy, his hands covered in ink, wassailling, howling, anything with strings and too many films.
At Metageum '07
The beautiful Turkish gullet, or schooner, the Fernandes II, will bring attendees of Metageum '07 from their hotels in Sliema at the start of each day to the conference venue, the Caraffa Stores in Vittoriosa, and return them back at the end of each day. During the half-hour voyage, you will be treated to tales from one of the two visiting story-tellers of Metageum: Diana Bewley from 3rd to 6th November, and Tallyessin from 7th to 11th November.