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Geography teacher-poet aims to put rap on map [Wales]:
A TEACHER at a North Wales school will reveal his secret life later this week.

By day Hywel Williams teaches Welsh and geography at Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy in Llanrwst.

But in his spare time Hywel, who has taught at the school for more than 30 years, writes poetry.

On Thursday he will be mixing it big time with the professionals as he takes part in the Llanast Llanrwst Rappers v Bards competition.

The 54-year-old was one of the team of poets narrowly beaten by rappers last year.

Hywel, who has been writing poetry for 12 years, said: "The basic concept of the competition is both teams have to create poems and raps against each other.

"The meuryn (judge) awards points for the best poem or rap. Some of the competition includes live musical backing to help get the beat going.

"The competition started at Llanrwst last year and has been very popular throughout Wales since then."

Hywel will be joined by team-mates crowned bard Twm Morys, poet Dewi Prysor, and singer poets Geraint Lovgreen and Iwan Roberts.

They will be up against rappers Steffan Cravos, MC Saizmundo, Barry Thomas and singer Aron from rock-group Pep Le Pew. [...]

This should be very good or very bad. In either case, I wish I could be there.

Welsh rap: A brief history

This entry was posted by eeksypeeksy on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 at 2:05 PM. You can skip to the end and leave a response.

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