In 2005 the Welsh publisher, Gomer, brought out
her new Welsh language poems, Perffaith Nam. This volume, in
English, translation by Elin ap Hywel, will be published by
Bloodaxe.
Critic Tony Conran has described Menna Elfyn as
“the first Welsh poet in fifteen hundred years to make a serious
attempt to have her work known outside Wales”.
Robert Minhinnick
Poems
Baggage
Carousel
Litany on
Beginning a Burial
Stone
Poem
Links
In English,
Welsh
Menna Elfyn
Poet’s own site.
In English
Bloodaxe
Publisher’s site.
In English, Welsh, Spanish, Italian
cyfwe.org
Online texts and biography.
Menna Elfyn was born in 1951 and lives in Llandysul, west
Wales. She has published eight collections of poetry as well as
novels and plays. In recent years, the English publisher, Bloodaxe,
has issued bilingual volumes from Menna Elfyn, which contain
facing-text English language translations by a variety of hands.
These volumes include Cell Angel / Cell Angel, (1996) and
Cusan Dyn Dall / Blind Man’s Kiss (2001).