6 pages, 3 tables, 3 figures.-- Printed version published Mar 30, 2006.-- PACS nrs.: 25.60.Je; 25.45.Hi; 27.20.+n.-- et al.The one-neutron transfer reaction Li-9 + H-2 -> Li-8 + t has been investigated in an inverse kinematics experiment by bombarding a deuterated polypropylene target with a 2.36 MeV/u Li-9 beam from the post-accelerator REX-ISOLDE at CERN. Excitation energies in Li-8 as well as angular distributions of the tritons were obtained and spectroscopic factors deduced.This work has been supported by the European Union Fifth Framework under contract No. HPRI-CT-1999-00018, the BMBF under contract 06 DA 115, GSI under contract DA-RIC, partly by the Spanish CICYT Agency under the project number FPA2002-04181-c04-02 as well as by the ISOLDE collaboration.Peer reviewed