Poets in the cities Cardiff presents an evening of readings from Aifric Mac Aodha, Celia de Freine and Llyr Gwyn Lewis.

Aifric Mac Aodha‘s Foreign News, with translations into English by David Wheatley, was published by The Gallery Press in 2017 and Aifric was awarded the Oireachtas Prize for Poetry in the same year.

Celia de Fréine is an award-winning poet, playwright, screenwriter and librettist who writes in Irish and English. She has most recently published ‘cuir amach seo dom : riddle me this’, published by Arlen House in 2014, and has been awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Award and ‘Gradam Litríochta Chló Iar-Chonnacht’, among others.

Llŷr Gwyn Lewis is a Welsh-language writer and poet. His first prose work, Rhyw Flodau Rhyfel (Some Flowers of War) (Y Lolfa, 2014), won the Creative Non-Fiction category in the 2015 Wales Book of the Year award, and he was selected as one of Literary Europe Live‘s New Voices from Europe 2017.

This reading will take place in Irish and Welsh with English translations. With support from Culture Ireland, Poetry Ireland and Cardiff University School of English, Communication and Philosophy, and in collaboration with Poetry Wales.