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Celtic Connections

Tuesday 8 July 2008, 7.30 pm
Japan Room, Wales Millennium Centre

Breton poet Eve Lerner reads alongside Welsh poets Hilary Llewellyn-Williams and Mererid Hopwood, for the Cardiff leg of a tour of Wales.

A translator and a poet, Eve Lerner has written some 30 books, contributed to Breton magazine Hopala!, founded the Poetree collection in San Francisco and she also runs the L’Autre Rive poetry and visual art centre in Lorient. Eve is currently editing an anthology of Welsh women poets, to be published in Brittany, which will include work by Mererid Hopwood and Hilary Llewellyn-Williams.

Hilary Llewellyn-Williams’ first collection, The Tree Calendar, was published by Seren in 1987; her most recent collection is Greenland.  She is currently working on a new poetic version of the Chinese classic, the I Ching.  She tutors creative writing for the Open University and also co-edits the journal Scintilla with Ann Cluysenaar and Graham Hartill.

Born in Cardiff, Mererid Hopwood is a poet and tutor.  She was the first woman to win the National Eisteddfod Chair, which she won in 2001 for her poem ’Dadeni’ (Rebirth).  Her book Singing in Chains is a comprehensive guide in English to the strict meter forms of cynghanedd.

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