Emrys Roberts (poet)

{{Short description|Welsh poet and archdruid}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|175px|Emrys Roberts at the 1971 National Eisteddfod '''Emrys Roberts''' (1929 – 30 March 2012) was a Welsh language poet and author, who was Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.<ref name="BBC">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17565600 |title=Former Archdruid of Wales Emrys Roberts dies at 82|accessdate=1 April 2012|date=30 March 2012 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref>

Born in Liverpool, Roberts grew up in Penrhyndeudraeth and studied at the Bangor Normal College before becoming a teacher.<ref>John Rowlands, ''The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry'', p.221</ref> He twice won the chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, in 1967 and 1971. In 1987 he was made Archdruid and led the Gorsedd of Bards at the National Eisteddfod between 1987 and 1990 under the bardic name '''Emrys Deudraeth'''.<ref name="BBC"/>

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