Donald Evans (Welsh poet)

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Donald Evans (born 1940) is a Welsh poet, who writes in the Welsh language.

Evans comes from Talgarreg in Ceredigion. Between 1966 and 1972 he produced the periodical Y Cardi. He won the "double" of crown and chair twice, once at the 1977 National Eisteddfod of Wales and again in 1980. In 2006 he was awarded a Ph. D. by the University of Wales, Lampeter for his work on strict-metre Welsh poetry submitted to eisteddfodau in the years 1955 - 1999 [1].

[edit] Works

• Parsel Persain (ed.) (1976)
• Y Flodeugerdd o Gywyddau (ed.) (1981)
• Seren Poets Series 2 (with Desmond Graham and Simon Rae) (1990)
• Writers of Wales: Rhydwen Williams (1991)
• Wrth Reddf (1994)
• Y Cyntefig Cyfoes (2000)