A new Children's Poet Laureate for Wales 2008-9 have been announced from the phase of Conwy's Urdd Gobaith Cymru National Eisteddfod.
The new poet laureate - Ifor ap Glyn - from Caernarfon, goes the 9th individual to throw the post.
The place is a joint strategy between S4C, the Welshman Books Council, the Welshman Academy and Urdd Gobaith Cymru.
The station in Cymru takes to acquire children to bask poesy as well as raising its profile.
Mr ap Glyn said he was extremely happy to have the statute title of Wales' Children's Poet Laureate.
He said: "Accepting this station is an honour, and I look forward to working with children and immature people all over Wales. I trust also to utilize picture and music while authorship verse forms with them."
Mr ap Glyn follows in the footfalls of Myrddin ap Dafydd, Meirion McIntyre Huws, Menna Elfyn, Ceri Wyn Jones, Tudur Dylan, Mererid Hopwood, Gwyneth Glyn and Caryl Parry Jones.
He was born and brought up in the Welshman community in London, where his household have got lived for over 100 years, but now dwells and plant in Caernarfon, with his married woman and their four children.
He works as a telecasting producer, having spent some clip scriptwriting for theatre and television.
He won the Crown at the National Eisteddfod in Anglesey Island in 1999 for a verse form examining the at odds mental attitudes towards Welshman scholars in the industrial South east and the traditional heartlands of the language.
Mr ap Glyn said he have always enjoyed performing his work live.
He performed in an event to observe the gap of the Welshman National Assembly in 1999, as portion of a line-up that also included Uncle Tom Mother Jones and Shirley Bassey.
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