Ifor ap Glyn  Ifor ap Glyn (born 1961) is a television presenter and Welsh-language poet. Since 2016 he has been National Poet of Wales. Ifor ap Glyn was born in London into a Welsh-speaking family, but graduated from Cardiff University. He relocated as an adult to Denbighshire and later to Caernarfon. He worked as a television producer and scriptwriter before becoming a poet and dramatist and has worked extensively with the theatre company Cwmni Dda. He performed at the celebratory concert that marked the opening of the Welsh National Assembly in 1999, and has twice represented Wales at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in the USA. He was Children’s Poet Laureate for Wales (Bardd Plant Cymru) in 2008-2009 and won the Crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1999 and 2013. He was the executive producer of the documentary film "Cysgod Rhyfel" "(The Shadow of War)". On 1 March 2016 Ifor ap Glyn was appointed National Poet of Wales.