Hay Festival Winter Weekend 2024

Glyn Edwards recites from and discusses his collection In Orbit, which examines grief, loss and toxic standards for boys and men. Narrated by a man who receives news of a beloved teacher’s death, In Orbit covers the man’s past, present and future, all of which seem to be punctuated by the same intense grief. Edwards’ collection is a deeply moving account of losing a person you love, but not shying away from remembering them.

Edwards works as a teacher in North Wales and is a PhD researcher in ecopoetry at Bangor University, considering the role of poetry as activism in the wake of the Anthropocene. He is a contributing editor for Modron, a journal for environmental writing, and the Wild Words feature for North Wales Wildlife Trust. He is a former winner of Wales’ Teacher of the Year, and has created educational resources for the Welsh Government, the WJEC and Poetry Wales. In Orbit won the People’s Choice Award at the Wales Book of the Year 2024 Awards Ceremony, run by Literature Wales.