set in the 12th century, with a poet narrator, the Griffri of the title, and deals vividly and intensely with the bloody history of the period. Five novels and one collection of short stories have appeared so far, and four full-length poetry collections as well as other shorter volumes. The body of his work in poetry and fiction is marked by formal versatility, a wide range of subject matter and milieu, and an underlying coherence of theme and imagination. There is a marked strain of humour, often very black, in some of the fiction. Magazine contributions have appeared in Agenda, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Poetry London, New Statesman, New England Review/Bread Loaf Quarterly, Independent on Sunday, TLS and others. In the mid-1990s he wrote a column for Planet. There are numerous anthology contributions, including to the Forward Book of Poetry 2014 and Best European Fiction 2015. He has given readings and talks and taken part in workshops and seminars all over Britain, in Ireland, Brittany, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Finland, Slovenia, Estonia, Israel/Palestine, Egypt and the USA. Meredith was brought up in a non-Welsh speaking home in a largely linguistically Anglicised part of the country and has had no formal education in Welsh at all. His interest in the language started in his early teens, but he began learning it in earnest with friends and from books while a student. While almost all his writing is in English, Welsh language and literature are a profound presence in his work and life. He has published a short book for children in Welsh, which has since appeared in an English version, and one of his short stories, 'Progress' from Brief Lives (2018), has appeared in his own Welsh version titled 'Cam Ymlaen' in the magazine O'r Pedwar Gwynt. He's produced translations into English from Welsh by other hands, including Mihangel Morgan's novel, Melog (2005) and has translated poetry by other hands into Welsh for the magazine Taliesin. A handful of poems in Welsh is scattered in his collections, accompanied by English versions. In the 2010s he was commissioned to compose monumental wall inscriptions in Welsh and English for y Gaer, the museum, art gallery and library complex in Brecon, which opened in 2019. Meredith's critical work includes a major essay on conceptions of writing: 'Miller's Answer: Making, Saying and the Impulse to Write', delivered as a lecture at the Hay Festival