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will add another city to its already impressive collection tonight when the comedy/literary evening takes place at the .

If you've not heard of Literary Death Match before, the basic premise is an evening's amusement in which four talented writers read some of their most entertaining work for seven minutes or less in front of an audience, plus a panel of three judges.

After each pair of readers the judges select their favourite, with the eventual two finalists battling it out in the death match finale for - in tonight's case - the Cardiff crown.

A paragraph on the Literary Death Match website describes what you can expect:

"It may sound like a circus - and that's half the point. Literary Death Match is passionate about inspecting new and innovative ways to present text off the page, and the most fascinating part about the LDM is how seriously attentive the audience is during each reading.

"We've called this the great literary ruse: an audacious and inviting title, a harebrained finale, but in-between the judging creates a relationship with the viewer as a judge themselves."

The four readers performing their own work at this evening's event are poet - and the winner of the John Tripp Spoken Poetry Audience Prize - Mab Jones; poet, author and one of Parthian's Bright Young Things Susie Wild; self-described poet/ranter Patrick Jones and poet David Oprava.

The panel consists of ITV's Nicholas Whitehead, comedian, actor and writer Taylor Glenn, and short story writer Huw Ellis. The evening will be hosted by the creator of Literary Death Match Todd Zuniga, who has written a brilliant guest article on today's .