CAInC Research Seminar: Retellings of the Mabinogion
Brigid Lowe in conversation with Peredur Webb Davies
Brigid Lowe, author of The Bloody Branch, recently published by Penguin, will talk about contemporary reworkings of myth with Peredur Glyn (Webb Davies), author of Pumed Gainc y Mabinogi.
Brigid Lowe grew up on Ynys Môn. She studied literature at Bangor, completed a doctorate at Oxford, and went on to teach and research at Sheffield and Cambridge Universities, publishing a book and many essays on the art of fiction. She now lives with her children and their phones on a hill in Edinburgh, once again looking across a narrow strait at receding ranks of mountains. She writes about myth, nature and her own personal wo/anderings as a woman in midlife, in fiction, non-fiction and verse.
Peredur Glyn (Peredur Webb-Davies) is a Reader in Linguistics and Bilingualism at Bangor University, where he has worked since 2009. He holds degrees from Queens' College, Cambridge, in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Studies and a PhD in Linguistics from Bangor. His creative research output is cosmic horror in Welsh, where he draws inspiration from Welsh mythology and medieval literature to explore contemporary themes. His linguistic research focuses on language variation and change in bilingual Wales, especially phenomena such as Welsh-English code-switching. His published books include Pumed Gainc y Mabinogi (Y Lolfa, 2022) and Cysgod y Mabinogi (Y Lolfa, 2024). His novel Anfarwol, neu Diflaniad Theophilus Cibberwon the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize at the 2025 National Eisteddfod in Wrexham. He lives in Menai Bridge.