Live poetry and music night by Caleb Nichols, with Rhys Owain Williams and Nia Davies, at Volcano Theatre.
Caleb Nichols brings live poetry and music to Volcano Theatre on Thursday 10 December, starting at 7:30pm. The night is presented in association with Huw Williams, and Nichols shares the bill with two other poets: Nia Davies and Swansea writer Rhys Owain Williams.
Nichols is a writer and musician from California, currently serving as the first queer poet laureate of San Luis Obispo County, a role they hold from 2025 to 2027. Their poems have appeared in the New England Review and Poetry Wales, and they've spent time in North Wales, where they completed a PhD at Bangor University before moving to Glasgow. On the music side, they've been active since the 2000s neo-folk band Port O'Brien, and more recently with the US label Kill Rock Stars.
The set draws on Lithic: A Hyperballad, which won the 2024 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize and is coming out alongside a spoken-word album backed by music from 'Stone Age is Now'. It's a night of spoken word performed with live music, so you'll hear the poems read aloud rather than just read on the page.
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Joining them are Nia Davies, whose 2024 collection Votive Mess was published by Bloodaxe, and Rhys Owain Williams, a Swansea writer who published That Lone Ship in 2018 and Here's What Happens When You Enter a Black Hole in 2026. The whole thing is staged at Volcano Theatre on High Street, Swansea's independent Art Haus and home of Volcano Theatre Company. It starts at 7:30pm on Thursday 10 December.
