Twm Morys (born 1961) is a Welsh poet and musician.
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Morys was born in 1961 in Oxford, a son to the author Jan Morris. He was brought up in Llanystumdwy and attended Ysgol y Llan, before attending boarding school in Shrewsbury at the age of seven. Morys returned to Wales to study a Welsh-language A level at Brecon Comprehensive School.[1]
Morys graduated from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth with a degree in Celtic Studies; he also won the inter-collegiate chair whilst at the university. He has worked for BBC Radio Cymru as a researcher and later as a minstrel.[1] Morys later moved to Brittany, where he lived for ten years and worked as a lecturer at the University of Rennes.[2]
In addition to two volumes of poetry, Twm Morys has written an important body of essays as columnist for various literary reviews. The son of the writer Jan Morris, he has collaborated with her on two volumes, Wales, the First Place (Random House, 1982), and A Machynlleth Triad/Triawd Machynlleth (Penguin, 1994). Ein Llyw Cyntaf (Gomer, 2001) is his Welsh adaptation of Jan Morris's novel Our First Leader. He won the chair at the 2003 National Eisteddfod for his poem Drysau (Doors).
He also writes for television and radio, as well as lyrics, which he sings with the folk-rock group, Bob Delyn a'r Ebillion.
Twm Morys is the Bardd Plant Cymru (Welsh children's poet laureate) for 2009–2010.[3]