First published in a fortnightly column in the Western Mail, 9 May 2024. Er teithio i fannau pell yn ystod y blynyddoedd a fu, does unlle yn rhoi mwy o bleser i mi na theithio i fan ym mae Ceredigion. I fod yn fwy penodol i Langrannog. Rwy wedi colli cownt o’r gwyliau...

First published in a fortnightly column in the Western Mail, 25 April 2024. Rwy wastad wedi teimlo balchder o gael Senedd yng Nghaerdydd hyd yn oed os yw’r hyn a ddigwydd yno weithiau yn gwneud i rywun godi’n don o siomedigaeth. Ond mae’n dlawd o fyd pan yw yr...

First published in a fortnightly column in the Western Mail, 12 April 2024.  Mae rhywun yn teimlo’n euog weithiau o fod wedi ymweld  â  rhannau o’r byd ac eto heb wneud yn fawr o’r mannau sydd  o fewn ein  milltir sgwâr.  Fel D.J. Williams a alwodd ei hun yn Shirgarwr...

To mark the 70th anniversary of the first radio broadcast of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, and to take up Dylan Thomas’s idea of getting writers to write about their particular locality, Menna Elfyn was commissioned along with four other writers to create a short...

  Menna Elfyn speaking at a demonstration at Aberystwyth (25 January 2024) calling on Aberystwyth University to divest from supporting companies involved in the arms trade, supplying weapons and drones to Israel. (Picture by Marian Delyth)  ...

Menna Elfyn’s latest volume of poetry in Swedish translation is Cellängel translated by the distinguished poet Marie Tonkin. This is the first full length book to appear in Swedish and she will be launching the book in Sweden in July. In October 2022, a Spanish...

Professor Emerita of Poetry, and former Poet Laureate for Children in Wales, Menna Elfyn has been honoured with one of the main prizes by The Society of Authors at a special ceremony in Southwark Cathedral London on the 1 June, 2022. The prestigious Cholmondeley Award...

Last night (7th April, 2022) Menna Elfyn, Emerita Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David launched her new volume of poetry entitled 'Tosturi’ [Compassion]. During the launch held at Canolfan S4C Yr Egin, there were readings from...

Published in Welsh in the Welsh national paper - Western Mail. Roeddwn am ysgrifennu colofn yr wythnos hon am y  ddeddf  a basiwyd  gan Senedd Cymru i wahardd taro plant. Mae hon yn ddeddf hynod bwysig , un a ddylai ddiogelu hawl y plentyn i gael ei drin heb drais....

No one owns a language. Language is our own or our way of treating it. That is why the Welsh language belongs to everyone in Wales from those who read and know place names to calling friends with their Welsh names. I remember a student telling me that she once shared...

It's uncertain days for Ukraine for Russia and for the world. If there was a war game, this was it. When writing the column on February 1st, no one is really sure, except maybe one man of the way the wind will blow. If wisdom has been called for, now is the time to...

Happy New Year. And it's always an honour to be able to write this column. Now is the time to announce the royal honours for this dame or other or knight after knight. The most perplexing step was to make Tony Blair, for his deadly ventures in Iraq a Knight Companion...

There is a campaign to stop buying new clothes for a year. No, I won't promise yet not to buy anything for a whole year but I do have admiration for those who have started the campaign for the sake of the environment. I've been slowly trying to get rid of clothes in...

What a good word ‘strength' is? We can put so many words to boost it and now we have a new word in Welsh cyfnerthydd for ‘booster’ which is a jab to join the other two. One must praise those whose job it is to do this kind of work. It can’t be easy to retell time and...