Owen Sheers introduces his BBC film on Lynette Roberts, Dylan Thomas Festival, Swansea, Friday 30 October 2009, 7pm.

October 30, 2009

Friday 30 October 7pm

Lynette Roberts Film – as a precursor to the following day’s Conference, poets and writer Owen Sheers will introduce his recent BBC Poetry Season film on Lynette Roberts, much neglected modernist poet and friend of Dylan Thomas, followed by:

8.00pm – An evening with Fflur Dafydd and Owen Sheers

Fflur Dafydd is a novelist, singer-songwriter and lecturer in Creative Writing at Swansea University. Fflur won the Literature Medal in the National Eisteddfod in Swansea in 2006 for her novel Atyniad (Y Lolfa, 2006). In June this year she was announced as the first winner of the Oxfam Emerging Writer of the Year Award. Owen Sheers is an award-winning poet and novelist. His debut prose work The Dust Diaries (Faber, 2004) won the Wales Book of the Year Award in 2005 and his first novel, Resistance (Faber, 2008) has been translated into nine languages. Together Fflur and Owen will perform their work in a unique bilingual evening of poetry and song.
In association with Academi.

Full Price: £6.00. Concessions: £4.20. Swansea PTL: £2.40 to cover both Friday events.

Further details from the Dylan Thomas Festival website.