Join a wonderful line up of Welsh poets for a bilingual reading from Afonydd Poems for Welsh Rivers/Cerddi Afonydd Cymru
An anthology of poems about rivers is the obvious eco follow on to Northey and Owens last outing together, which was to collect verse about the A470, Wales main trunk road. And its terrific too if you didnt know how wilily-wet, watercourse-beset, rill-rich, brook-bombarded, nant-naturalised and aber-anaesthetised Wales was, then start here.
Peter Finch
Poems that celebrate the rivers of Wales. These are not generic river poems, but specific poems about particular rivers, from their source, tributaries, through course, to estuary washing up against the rural, the urban, the industrial, the unspoiled
No two rivers are the same. From the least bog-trickle to the 200-mile embrace of Hafren/Severn, each has its own voice, often many voices, each specific to the place it flows through and reflects. This is the insight that makes for such a rich and various anthology. More than just a showcase for the range and reach of Welsh writing in two equal languages, this is a water-map that catches the whole of Wales, its history and landscapes, its diversity and fine connections, in its glittering net.
Philip Gross, author of
A Fold in the River, Troeon/Turnings and The Water Table
Following the same pattern as our best-seller, A470, this is an entirely
bilingual Welsh/English Cymraeg/Saesneg, with each poem in the language it
originated in, alongside its translation.
Edited by Sian Northey and Ness Owen
Immerse yourself in this river of rivers, its narratives and lyric moments. All our griefs and joys course through it.
Paul Henry
