Martin Shipton Meets...

Menna Elfyn


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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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