Menna Elfyn Martin Shipton Meets...

Poet Menna Elfyn began writing at the age of 15, struck by the injustice of the Vietnam war and Treweryn Valley.She talks about her journey as a woman writing in Welsh to acceptance as a serious poet.And she recalls the stigma of writing about miscarriage in the 1970s and how activism saw her in prison twice. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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