Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers / Cerddi Afonydd Cymru - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1913665976 ISBN 13: 9781913665975

Publisher: Arachne Press, 2025

Synopsis

‘What a breath-taking rolling watery wonderful ride of a book! A powerful tribute and a call to action.’ – Deborah Alma

Inspired by the positive reaction to our earlier bilingual Welsh/English poetry anthology about a Welsh road, A470 Poems for the Road/Cerddi'r Ffordd; we expanded our scope to Welsh rivers - any of them. with over 600 to choose from this proved a rich seam of invention for our Welsh poets, and a wide geographical range within Wales too. Our poets range from novices to luminaries of the Welsh Poetry scene. The outcome - 50 poems in their original language, whether that was English or Welsh, next to a translation, celebrating everything about Welsh rivers, from source to estuary, fresh and clean or culverted and polluted, childhood memory to recent flooding.

About this title

About the Authors

Sian Northey is a freelance author, poet and translator. A first language Welsh speaker, she writes in Welsh/Cymraeg and mainly translates from English to Welsh, and occasionally in the other direction. Sian was brought up in Trawsfynydd, and now lives in Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd.
A translation (Susan Walton ) of Sian’s novel 'Yn y Tŷ Hwn' was published under the title 'This House' in 2024. Currently she is working on a novel where a small group of women face the closure of their chapel in rural Wales as the congregation dwindles.
Sian has, through Literature Across Frontiers, visited Kerala as a member of a translation poetry workshop and until recently she was Writer in Residence on an 18-month-long heritage project run by the Church in Wales, which included a week as Writer in Residence on Bardsey/Ynys Enlli.
After co-editing Arachne's first bilingual anthology, A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi'r Ffordd, with Ness Owen, she is very much looking forward to working with her again on Afonydd.
Sian has poems in Arachne Anthologies, A470, and Menopause *the* Anthology.

Ness Owen lives on the island of Ynys Mon where she writes plays, poetry and stories in between lecturing and farming. Her work has appeared in various journals including Poetry Wales, Red Poets, I, S & T, The Fat Damsel, Culture Matters and in anthologies published by Three Drops Press, Here and Now project and Mother’s Milk Books and Arachne Press, who published her bilingual first collection, Mamiaith; and for whom she co-edited best selling bilingual Welsh poetry anthology, A470

Edition details

• Publisher: Arachne Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913665976
• ISBN 13: 9781913665975
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110
• Editor: Northey Sian, Owen Ness