Professor Dai Smith started a UK tour promoting his biography of Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale on Thursday 1 May. Following a lunchtime signing in Watersone's, Cardiff the official Welsh launch took place that evening with an "in-conversation session" and reception hosted by the Open University in Wales and in association with University of Wales, Swansea.

Pictured above are Dai Smith with Rhodri Glyn Thomas, Minister for Heritage and Rob Humphreys, Directer of the OU in Wales.

Dai is pictured below on the first leg of his Spring tour which will take him to Birbeck College in London on Saturday 10 May and to the Guardian Hay Festival on Monday 26 May, On both occassions he will be introduced By Eric Hobsbawm.

A week earlier, at the London Book Fair, Publisher Richard Davies is shown below presenting a copy of the biography to John Callow of the Marx Memorial Library.

American actress Q'Orianka Kilcher who starred as Pocahontas in the 2005 film The New World is championing the cause of Mehmet Basci's international youth and peace project out of which was born the poetry anthology World Leader's Favourite Poems

Founders of the Power of Dreaming project Julianna Hepp and Mehmet Basci spent a week in London at the beginning of April. Mehmet launched World leaders Favourite Poems to the trade at the London Book Fair.

After much travelling around London promoting both the project and the book Julianna hosted the press launch at the Adam Street Members Club at which Q'orianka was the guest of honour and read from the collection.

The night was a great success and after the speeches and readings came live music, a DJ set from Hayley Long and dancing into the early hours.

Mehmet and Q'orianka are shown below, "strutting their stuff" and posing with Dominic of Parthian.

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