I Am Taliesin

I’m going to post some pieces written for other publications here over the next few weeks, so that they’re all in one place. I’m going to start with I Am Taliesin, which first appeared on the Dark Mountain blog as part of their ‘The Mythos We Live By’ series.  This week we continue ‘The Mythos We […]

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Poetry and the National Trust

Over the last week I’ve been fortunate enough to work with local young people at two National Trust properties: Tredegar House in Newport and Chirk Castle, on the north Wales border. Organised and facilitated by Literature Wales as part of the Young People’s Laureateship, each residency lasted two days and a lot of fun was […]

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On Growing & Writing

I was born to the sound of starlings murmurating across the north Wales coastline. The Rebel Sun rode low in an early February sky as the Irish Sea gnawed across my ribcage. My hair was knotted seaweed. Water swelled sand dunes into my belly & a flock of seagulls took up residence in my mouth. […]

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Codi Pac

Rôn i’n ar y teledu dros y penwythnos yma (S4C). Mae rhaglen enw Codi Pac – am bobl sy’n dysgu Cymraeg. Roedd ‘na darn am Wrecsam – felly dyma fi yn Saith Seren sgwrs am pethau. Rôn i’n nerfus iawn ond roedd y bobl yn rili lyfli. Dwi wedi bod yn ddysgu Cymraeg ers 8 […]

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