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Resources:

Cell Angel
Cusan Dyn Dall/Blind Man’s Kiss
Perffaith Nam/Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems 1995-2007
The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry
Menna Elfyn’s poetry on Amazon
Menna Elfyn’s home page
Menna Elfyn at Contemporary Writers
Menna Elfyn at BBC Wales: Arts
Menna Elfyn at Bloodaxe Books

Menna Elfyn

Author of over 20 books of poetry, prose, academic & educational works. Also playwright of over 8 stage plays, 5 for radio and two television plays. She has also produced short films and has presented programmes for the BBC, HTV and S4C. She was made Poet Laureate for the Children of Wales in 2002 and has recently won a Creative Arts Award to write a prose book on the subject of sleep. She has travelled the world to read her work at Festivals and has held residencies and workshops in college in the US, Canada, and in over 15 countries for the British Council.??Her latest poetry collection Perffaith Nam/Perfect Blemish is published by Bloodaxe Books. She was awarded the Anima Istranza Foreign Prize for Poetry at the International Festival of the City of Olbia on the island of Sardinia on Sunday 25 October 2009. (From Menna Elfyn’s website)

This film by Pamela Robertson-Pearce is from the DVD-book IN PERSON: 30 POETS, ed. Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2008):
Bloodaxe Books – In Person

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