THE former Children Laureate for Wales Mererid Hopwood will perform some of her prized poems for online audiences.

Mrs Hopwood, the first woman to win the bardic chair of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, will share her collection of poetry titled Nes Draw (‘Further Away’) in a free show with Theatr Clwyd.

The collection won the Welsh language Book of the Year award for poetry in 2016, which added to Mrs Hopwood’s Eisteddfod Chair and Crown and national Prose Medal. She was also named the winner of the Tir na n’Og prize for children’s writing in 2018.

Mrs Hopwood has work is a collaboration with Damian Walford Davies and photographer Paul White, Poets’ Graves/Beddau’r Beirdd (2014), a record of 71 Welsh gravestones coupled with prose and poetry responses.

The show takes place via the Theatr Clwyd website on Thursday, March 4 from 7.30pm.

Confirm your attendance at www.theatrclwyd.com