An Evening with Shara McCallum and Ifor Ap Glyn
Join us at the Scottish Poetry Library on Friday, 4th November for a special event with Jamaican poet Shara McCallum and former Welsh laureate Ifor ap Glyn!
About An Evening with Shara McCallum and Ifor Ap Glyn
Poet Shara McCallum is from Jamaica, and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother. She is the author of six books published in the US and UK, most recently No Ruined Stone, a current nominee for a 2022 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and a finalist for the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. McCallum’s poems and essays have appeared in journals, anthologies, and textbooks throughout the US, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. La historia es un cuarto/History is a Room, an anthology of poems drawn from her six books and translated into Spanish by Adalber Salas Hernández, was published in 2021 by Mantis Editores in Mexico.
Ifor ap Glyn is a writer, TV producer and-from 2016 to 2022-the National Poet of Wales. He has published five volumes of poetry in Welsh and in 2018 he published his first collection with English translation in a parallel text: Cuddle Call? An active performer, he's participated on many poetry tours including Lliwiau Rhyddid (The Colours of Freedom) and Y Gadair Wag (The Empty Chair). He has represented Wales twice at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in the USA and won the Crown for poetry at the National Eisteddfod in 1999 and 2013. His first novel, Tra Bo Dau (While there are two), was based on his upbringing in London, but he now lives in Caernarfon.
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