Who is coming to the Wales International Poetry Festival?
The Wales International Poetry Festival returns for a fifth time in 2017, with a series of readings, performances, debates and poetry film screenings over four days in Aberystwyth, Bangor and Caernarfon. The festival will open in Aberystwyth on the 3rd of May before moving to Bangor and Caernarfon on the 5th and 6th of May.
You can find out more about poets who are coming to WIPF to read and perform in the original languages with translations into English and Welsh:
- Juana Adcock
- Nicky Arscott
- Fiona Cameron
- Yolanda Castaño
- Menna Elfyn
- Frédéric Forte
- Ifor ap Glyn
- Anja Golob
- Gavin Goodwin
- Elin ap Hywel
- Ann Matthews
- Patrick McGuinness
- Luna Montenegro
- Karen Owen
- Luis David Palacios
- Mamta Sagar
- Rhys Trimble
Wales International Poetry Festival is part of the Literary Europe Live project supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. It is a collaboration between Bangor and Aberystwyth Universities, organised by Literature Across Frontiers in partnership with Poetry Wales, Wales Literature Exchange and Wales PEN Cymru, and with support from British Council Wales, Wales Arts International, the Galician Government, the Embassy of Mexico, Center for Slovenian Literature (CSK) and the Slovene Book Agency (JAK).
For a bilingual programme in Welsh and English click here.
