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Mike Parker\u2019s most recent book is On the Red Hill, an evocation of the queer rural, which won the 2020 non-fiction Wales Book of the Year and was runner-up for the Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Morris once told Mike Parker that A Machynlleth Triad was her only book that had never elicited a single letter &#8211; of either praise or complaint &#8211; from a reader. Two years after Jan\u2019s death, Mike will offer a belated love letter to the book, and place it within the context of other writings about Machynlleth, from George Borrow to Beatrix Potter, Peter Sagar to Byron Rogers. This is a town that so often punches above its slender weight, in words as in everything else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>In line with Government guidelines, as of 15th November 2021 you will need to use the NHS COVID pass show full vaccination status or a negative Lateral Flow Test to attend any events at the festival.<\/p>\n<p>You can apply for the NHS COVID Pass through the NHS website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/covid-status.service.nhsx.nhs.uk\/\">https:\/\/covid-status.service.nhsx.nhs.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online tickets for this event are no longer on sale but will be available to purchase&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28659,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"Tribe__Tickets_Plus__Commerce__WooCommerce__Main","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[{\"id\":28529,\"type\":\"default\",\"title\":\"Mike Parker\",\"description\":\"\",\"capacityType\":\"own\",\"price\":10,\"capacity\":40,\"available\":25,\"sharedCapacity\":40,\"sold\":15,\"shareSold\":15,\"isShared\":false,\"currencyDecimalPoint\":\".\",\"currencyNumberOfDecimals\":2,\"currencyPosition\":\"prefix\",\"currencySymbol\":\"\\u00a3\",\"currencyThousandsSep\":\",\"}]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[355,358],"class_list":["post-28528","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-concerts-and-events","tribe_events_cat-talk-and-lecture","cat_concerts-and-events","cat_talk-and-lecture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<title>Mike Parker \u2013 Machynlleth and the meaning of Somewhere - 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