Leland Bardwell, born in India in 1922, was an Irish poet, prose writer and playwright. In her lifetime, she published five collections of poetry, five novels, a book of short stories and a memoir, as well as having four stage plays and a number of radio plays produced. Her prose and poetry was translated into German, Polish, Spanish, French and Turkish. She was co-founder of Cyphers, one of the longest running poetry magazines in the world, an active supporter of the Irish Writers’ Co-operative and was centrally involved in the Scríobh Literary Festival in the 1990s-2000s. She was also a founding member of Aosdána. She brought to her poetry, plays and prose a clear and unsentimental empathy for those marginalised by their gender, poverty, lack of education or emotional injuries, and the work was informed by her life without being self-regarding. She died in 2016.
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