Award-winning live performer and poet Martin Daws has been named as the new Young People’s Laureate for Wales. Forthcoming projects will include working with young people to create their own poetic manifestos, a summer day school for writers and youth leaders on delivering accessible literature activities, and a pop-up poetry tour of Wales’ more rural communities. His years of experience in delivering education through creative techniques include workshops in classrooms, theatres, woodlands, festivals, universities, museums and bus stops.  

Martin will be tweeting daily via the Young People’s Laureate Twitter account, @YPLWales, giving young people and adults the opportunity to converse with him and take part in an interactive Twitter-poem which will grow in multiple directions each day.

PHOTOGRAPH: EMYR YOUNG