College of Arts and Humanities
A Academi Hywel Teifi Event
SpeakerMenna Elfyn
Fflur Dafydd
Menna Elfyn (b.1952) is an award-winning poet and playwright who writes with passion of the Welsh language and identity. She is the best known and most translated of all modern Welsh-language poets. Author of over twenty books of poetry including Aderyn Bach Mewn Llaw (1990), winner of a Welsh Arts Council Prize; the bilingual Eucalyptus: Detholiad o Gerddi / Selected Poems 1978-1994 from Gomer and her previous collection, Cell Angel (1996) from Bloodaxe, children’s novels and educational books, numerous stage, radio and television plays, she has also written libretti for US and UK composers. In 1999, she co-wrote ‘Garden of Light’, a choral symphony for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra which was performed at the Lincoln Centre in New York. She received a Creative Arts Award in 2008 to write a book on ‘Sleep’. Menna is Director of the Masters Programme in Creative Writing at Trinity University, Carmarthen and is Literary Fellow at Swansea University. When not travelling the world for readings or television work and theatre productions, she lives in Llandysul.
From: 29 Jun 2018, 7 p.m.To: 29 Jun 2018, 9 p.m.
Location: Ty r Gwrhyd , Stryd Holly, Pontardawe SA8 4ET
The poet Menna Elfyn will be discussing her new book, Cennad with her daughter, the writer and our former colleague Fflur Dafydd. Entry is free and everyone is welcome
Contact: Sioned (Email: sioned.williams@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 01792 606535
Event created by: sioned.williams