WISERD Conference 2012

Poetry Evening

Poetry Reading: Ffin a Frontier with Menna Elfyn and Zoe Skoulding

27th March 2012, 7.30pm

Terrace Lounge, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

This special poetry evening is open to everyone and will launch the conference on Tuesday 27th March.

Two well-known poets – Menna Elfyn and Zoe Skoulding – will be reading some of their latest work, under the theme ‘Ffin a Frontier’ in Welsh and in English.

Tickets are £5.00 each and can be booked via the normal booking form.

Menna Elfyn is an award-winning poet and playwright who writes with passion on the Welsh language and identity. She is the best known and most translated of all modern Welsh-language poets and author of more than twenty books of poetry, including Aderyn Bach Mewn Llaw (1990), winner of a Welsh Arts Council Prize.

Menna is Director of the Masters Programme in Creative Writing at Trinity University, Carmarthen and is Literary Fellow at Swansea University.

Zoe Skoulding’s most recent collection of poems is Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008), which was long-listed for Wales Book of the Year in 2009. She lectures in the School of English at Bangor University and is the editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales.