Gwerful Mechain was a medieval woman with a modern sensibility and her whip-smart poetry is just as rude, crude and powerful today
- PhD candidate, Swansea University
From speaking out over domestic abuse in medieval times to telling the realities of war, these female poets present a very different version of Welsh life.
Rolling, lyrical Welsh poetry could be just what Wales needs to engage with its own culture.
It’s been 680 years since the last princess of Wales born to reigning monarchs in the country walked the earth.
Welsh poetry has more in common with music than Shakespeare’s sonnets or Keats’s Romantic verses.
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