Menna Elfyn

Menna Elfyn is a poet and playwright who writes with passion of the Welsh language and identity.

She has published eight collections and three children’s novels in Welsh, and also co-edited The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry (2003) with John Rowlands. Her poetry is now available in two bilingual selections, Eucalyptus: Detholiad o Gerddi / Selected Poems 1978-1994 from Gomer and Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems / Perffaith Nam: Dau Ddetholiad & Cherddi Newydd 1995-2007 from Bloodaxe. Her Welsh originals in this book have facing English translations by Elin ap Hywel, Joseph Clancy, Gillian Clarke, Tony Conran, Nigel Jenkins and Robert Minhinnick.

When not travelling the world for readings and residencies, she lives in Llandysul. She was Wales’s National Children’s Laureate in 2002.