Poetry

Very little information has survived relating to Ieuan and his poetry. Ieuan composed a poem to a woman named “Anni Goch” in which he accuses how false women have been throughout history ("Anni Goch," however, may well be a stock character). This provoked Gwerful Mechain

Gwerful Mechain

Gwerful Mechain , who lived in Mechain in Powys, is perhaps the most famous female Welsh-language poet. Little is known of her life....

to respond with her poem “I Wragedd Eiddigeddus”.