Starting 12 July, this festival presents live Indian classical music at its best and is a beautiful way to experience poetic verse and complex rhythm.

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Unlike the crown, which is awarded on the Monday of eisteddfod week for poems in the free metres, the chair is reserved for poems in cynghanedd, the ancient system of strict poetic metres which requires poems to be written in a complex mix of consonantal harmony, stress, rhythm and rhyme.

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