POETRY, music and the arts combine in the Inspired in Caersws Festival this Saturday and Sunday, April 21 and 22.

Part of the 10th anniversary season at the Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, it is being held in association with Fair Acre Press, with a variety performances and workshops.

It includes a ‘Cerdd a Chan’ celebration of John ‘Ceiriog’ Hughes, the poet and musicologist who was also a railway stationmaster at Caersws, at 2pm this Saturday.

Author Ian McMillan will be giving readings with award winning poet and playwright Menna Elfyn, plus vocalist Diane Drummond and her band, in ‘Don’t Just Hear, Listen!’ at 7.30pm on Saturday.

Yorkshire poet Gill Lambert will be running a poetry workshop to start the festival off from 3pm.

Sunday will start at 11am with another poetry workshop looking at what the contemporary poet can learn from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, led by poet and Coleridge scholar Dr Gregory Leadbetter.

Gregory Leadbetter will return for ‘Poetry in the Afternoon’ from 3pm, with David Calcutt and Keith Chandler.

The festival will end with an Open Mic from 5.30pm sharing poems written during the festival, hosted by Nadia Kingsley, director and editor of Fair Acre Press.

Full details can be found on the midwalesarts.org.uk website and at fairacrepress.co.uk/inspired-in-caersws-festival.