{"id":124,"date":"2024-04-24T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T07:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/?page_id=124"},"modified":"2025-01-15T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:27:21","slug":"wales-millennium-centre-gwyneth-lewis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wales-millennium-centre-gwyneth-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales Millennium Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;In These Stones&#039;: Gwyneth Lewis &amp; Hanan Issa in conversation\/Sgwrs rhwng Gwyneth Lewis a Hanan Issa\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BhiTFSbY_qc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ext_4-credit-phil-boorman-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Wales Millennium Centre credit Phil Noorman\" class=\"wp-image-1031\" style=\"width:600px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ext_4-credit-phil-boorman-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ext_4-credit-phil-boorman-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ext_4-credit-phil-boorman-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ext_4-credit-phil-boorman-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ext_4-credit-phil-boorman-930x620.jpg 930w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ext_4-credit-phil-boorman-272x182.jpg 272w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ext_4-credit-phil-boorman.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wales Millennium Centre credit Phil Noorman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CREU GWIR FEL GWYDR O FFWRNAIS AWEN<br>IN THESE STONES HORIZONS SING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My biggest poem is on the front of the Wales Millennium Centre. I love that its poetry announces to the world that the arts are about speaking democratically, in multiple voices and languages, across horizons, creating time and space for each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote the words to reflect the cultural ambition of Wales Millennium Centre. They draw both on Wales&#8217;s industrial past and the institution&#8217;s location in Cardiff Bay, once the greatest coal port in the world.&nbsp;<br><br>I wanted the words to reflect the architecture of the building. Its copper dome reminded me of the furnaces from Wales&#8217;s industrial heritage and also Ceridwen&#8217;s cauldron, from which the early poet Taliesin received his inspiration or &#8211; \u2018Awen\u2019. The windows out of which the words are made suggest to me an ideal of poetry: that it should be clear enough to let light in and out of a building, offering enough a distinctively local view of the world; it should speak a truth which is transparent, beautifully crafted but also fragile and, therefore, doubly precious.&nbsp;<br><br>It was important to me that the English words on the building should not simply be a translation of the Welsh (which is \u2018Creating truth like glass from inspiration\u2019s furnace\u2019), that they should have their own message. The strata of the slate frontage reminded me of the horizons just beyond Penarth Head. The sea has, traditionally, been for Cardiff the means by which the Welsh export their best to the world and the route by which the world comes to Cardiff. The stones inside the theatre literally sing with opera, musicals and orchestral music, and I wanted to convey the sense of an international space created by the art of music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20180718-WMC-215544-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Wales Millennium Centre credit Phil Noorman\" class=\"wp-image-1032\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20180718-WMC-215544-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20180718-WMC-215544-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20180718-WMC-215544-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20180718-WMC-215544-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20180718-WMC-215544-930x620.jpg 930w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20180718-WMC-215544-272x182.jpg 272w, http:\/\/gwynethlewis.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20180718-WMC-215544.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wales Millennium Centre credit Phil Noorman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org.uk\">Wales Millennium Centre<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CREU GWIR FEL GWYDR O FFWRNAIS AWENIN THESE STONES HORIZONS SING My biggest poem is on the front of the Wales Millennium Centre. I love that its poetry announces to the world that the arts are about speaking democratically, in multiple voices and languages, across horizons, creating time and space for each other. 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