Ben Wildsmith was born in Birmingham when Chuck Berry’s "My Ding a Ling" was number one in the charts. He’s been a fright, a new start, a doley, a bank clerk, a laundryman, a gardener, a liability, a lecturer, a shopkeeper, a musician, and a friend. He’s a Nation.Cymru columnist and a Hay Festival Writer@Work whose poetry has appeared in Red Poets and Poetry Wales. Ben is a support worker with Cardiff’s homeless community. He lives in Rhondda Fach with his wife, Susie, and an assortment of questionable notions.