Poetry Into Light CIC
Workshops Projects
Productions
A shining pencil to start,
share your indestructible heart!
Write with me on epiphany
into the next verse
of this irked and beautiful world.
A shining pencil to start, share your indestructible heart! Write with me on epiphany into the next verse of this irked and beautiful world.
Welcome to Poetry Into Light!
Thank you for visiting us!
Poetry Into Light CIC is a new South Wales 2025 start-up, not-for-profit organisation, offering workshops, projects, and productions. We facilitate and promote poetry from grassroots to professional levels. Our group is a Community Interest Company (CIC) to reflect our goals around engaging diverse, ambitious, and less-represented voices through poetry and creative writing. We are supported by Business Wales, Richard Newton Consultancy, The University of South Wales and the Bright Ideas Den.
Rise from your sandy pages.
What words do you hear
What makes your wrists twitch
as you scribble into the sense of it?
Rise from your sandy pages. What words do you hear What makes your wrists twitch as you scribble into the sense of it?
Our Core Values
Creativity
At Poetry Into Light, we support, witness and inspire people to weave words into texts that illuminate the soul. Our workshops and ethos embody the essence of creativity as a transformative power. We believe that poetic creativity guides us through the darkest of times, sharing hope, understanding, and vital human connection.
Empowerment
Empowerment is crucial to the work we do. Seeing others take their next big steps, build confidence and create anew brings us our greatest joy. We celebrate creative freedom and process, empowering people through writing exercises, feedback, projects, publications and performances, taking them on new inspired paths. All of our professional workshop leaders have had to build their confidence, so understand the importance of strong and empowering mentors as keys to flourishing in the art of creative writing.
Collaboration
At Poetry Into Light, we believe that people shine brighter with others! We value partnership working, hybrid projects and multi-organisational connections. We actively work across sectors among community groups and arts and health settings. Joining with others strengthens our impact and the capacity we have to deliver our projects well. Our collaborations embrace small and larger organisations, hard-to-reach communities and individuals, with the main aim of broadening the reach and benefits of poetry in its many forms.
Our Mission
To empower individuals and communities to write, perform and publish poetry for expression, pleasure and skill development.
Our Vision
To be a catalyst for confidence and creativity, furthering access and opportunities in poetry for groups and individuals in Wales and the world.
Our aims are to:
Empower and give agency to creative voices.
Create non-judgmental safe spaces for poetry and creativity to thrive.
Work with an ethic of respect towards all individuals, groups and places.
Develop interdisciplinary routes for poetry and poets to evolve.
Reflect our successes to the world to inspire others on flagship projects.
Link with established and new arts and community organisations.
Promote the range of benefits that poetry offers (self-expression, language development, creativity, confidence).
Navigate routes into the academic world of poetry to include journals, articles, and courses.
Educate children and adults on techniques of poetry.
Widen audiences for poetry in Wales and globally.
Honour professional recompense of the writers and artists that we work with.
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