Our most ordered books this month are #Afonydd and #A470. Worried someone may have already got a copy for the #Cymraeg #Welsh Poetry lover in your life? you could order #Mamiaith or Naming the Trees by @nessowen.bsky.social mostly in English with a core of Welsh poems @llyfraucymru.bsky.social

readers of #Cymraeg #Welsh and of writers from #Cymru #Wales Our #noAI #coedennadolig of ( #bilingual) #poetry anthologies/collections from sian northey @nessowen.bsky.social & @hazardpressuk.bsky.social #nadoligllawen last UK post 2nd 16thDec 1st 19thDec arachnepress.com/Poetry-c1217...

Diolch/Many thanks to the judges+team @forwardprizes.bsky.social for including Naming the Trees as highly commended.🙏 Inspired by the campaign to save Penrhos Nature Reserve from being developed. Here's my copy in the leaf wave+rustle of where it began🌳💚 @arachnepress.bsky.social @nation.cymru

For the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social day 8 Ness Owen’s ‘Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim’ @nessowen.bsky.social @parthianbooks.bsky.social

Lovely to get a mention in this Western Mail article about the @arachnepress.bsky.social rivers anthology for my St Teilo saint-wizard poem. Stuff happens when you get published by this press. 🌊 @walesonline.bsky.social @nessowen.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Reading over ‘Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers’ in the pub following the launch with Arachne Press and brilliant poets The Hours, Brecon This evening I read ‘By St Teilo’s Waters’. Thank you Cherry Potts and her team. @arachnepress.bsky.social @nessowen.bsky.social

Poetry post! Beautiful bilingual poem anthology ‘Afonydd’ from @arachnepress.bsky.social, edited by Sian Northey and @nessowen.bsky.social 😍

Catch #SianNorthey and @nessowen.bsky.social on Dros Ginio with Dewi Llwyd on #BBCSounds 45 mins in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... talking (in Cymraeg) about Afonydd: Ceddi Afonydd Cymru @poetrysociety.bsky.social @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @llyfraucymru.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social

keep your ears open for @nessowen.bsky.social and #siannorthey fri23/05 on #bbcradiocymru on Dros Ginio with #DewiLlwyd 13:40 talking about #Afonydd #bilingual (Cymraeg/English) #anthology #poems #Welsh #Rivers #cerddi #afonydd #Cymru @llyfraucymru.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social

more Afonydd coverage: Article on bbcnews website w/ @nessowen.bsky.social & natashagauthier (making excellent comparison between Canadian French & Welsh) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Segment on BBCRadioWales breakfastshow w/ Ness Owen & Rae Howells 55 minutes in. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We made the print @theguardian.com! There seems to be an insatiable thirst for #bilingual #Welsh/english #poetry about #rivers... and roads! @inpressbooks.bsky.social @swanseastones.bsky.social @librarywales.bsky.social @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @nessowen.bsky.social preorders: arachnepress.com

We have quite the article in @theguardian.com culture online thanks to Steven Morris. Afonydd *and* A470 highlighted. orders flooding in, roughly every 3-5 minutes. setting up a reprint. Thanks @nessowen.bsky.social & @raehowells.bsky.social for quotable quotes! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What is the future for #translation 👇

Many thanks to @emmalee1.bsky.social for these lovely words and close reading of Naming the Trees @arachnepress.bsky.social #poetry #ecopoetry 🙏🙏

Such stunning, important poems in #NamingTheTrees from @nessowen.bsky.social published by @arachnepress.bsky.social to help raise awareness and protect Penrhos Nature Reserve. Recommend!

TONIGHT!! Blue Sky Versify open mic 7pm upstairs @blueskycafe.bsky.social meic agored, i fyny'r grisiau am 7yh FREE event / DIGWYDDIAD AM DDIM @nessowen.bsky.social reading from her newest collection 'Naming the Trees' Dewch I lawr a wrando a fwynhau noson gwych gyda Ness Owen #Poetry

diolch to LlyfrauCymru/BooksWales for choosing @nessowen.bsky.social Naming the Trees as Book of the Month for March, and for helping to fund it in the first place! lots of events over the next few weeks, starting this Thursday in Holyhead at CanolfanUcheldre #ecopoetry trees penrhos ynysmon

Thursday 06/03 6pm CanolfanUcheldre Holyhead FREE. Join #poets @nessowen.bsky.social karen ankers & more for readings & celebration of Penrhos Nature Reserve at launch of Naming the Trees. Winners of the Penrhos Erasure Poetry & photo competitions will be announced. ucheldre.org/event/naming...

It's #publicationday for Naming the Trees 💚🌳 You can have a peek here👇 @arachnepress.bsky.social #poetry #saveourforest @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social 🙏

February 27th - #Machynlleth 6pm! Croeso I bawb/ All welcome 😊

#Poetry friends, if anyone would like a review copy of Naming the Trees, let me know.🌳💚 #poetrycommunity #ecopoetry #trees #booklaunch #bookreview

@nessowen.bsky.social reading Llwybr y Gaeaf (in Winter's Path) from forthcoming (27th Feb) poetry collection Naming the Trees. Buy a copy arachnepress.com/Naming-the-T... Come to an event arachnepress.com/events/ @llyfraucymru.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social

join @nessowen.bsky.social and local poets at Pen'rallt gallery bookshop, Machynlleth, for the 1st in a series of #poetrybooklaunch events for 'Naming the Trees'. 27/02/2025, 6 for 6.30. £5 includes wine/fruit juice/snacks. www.penralltgallerybookshop.co.uk/event-digwyd...

We are opening submissions on the theme of GRIEF tomorrow! We are looking for poems and short CNF about grief. By this we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, 🧵

Bit of a wet and misty day at Penrhos today. A perfect day to have a go at the free Penrhos Erasure Poetry Competition. Make poetry out of the developer's empty promises! Guidelines and texts to use here: www.facebook.com/share/1DwLr5... #poetry #ecopoetry #poetrycompetition #Sunday

They've arrived! My new collection Naming the Trees. Gorgeous cover art by Lou Moore from her Battle of the Trees exhibition. Inspired by the campaign to save PenrhosNatureReserve @PenrhosSave +all campaigns standing up to protect our greenspaces. #saveourforests #[email protected]

Free online event tonight Feb 9th, at 5pm GMT. Croeso I bawb / All welcome #poetry #bilingual Link in events page: m.facebook.com/events/58582...

Is #FollowFriday a thing on @bsky.app ? Helo from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 if it is😊 #poetry #ecopoetry #folklore #sea #trees #saveourgreenspaces and to start recommending these lovely people/accounts : @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social @parthianbooks.bsky.social @arachnepress.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

reading by @nessowen.bsky.social menna elfyn @fionaowen.bsky.social coming up (all reading from new and forthcoming collections of which only Ness' is published by us) Ars Draws Y Wlad this Sunday,09/02 5pm Ymuno â’r cyfarfod Zoom/Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting: ID 820 6271 3197 / Passcode: 778893

Penrhos Erasure Poetry Competition- free entry- please support the @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social campaign to save our nature reserve from being developed. #ecocide #ecopoetry docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Very happy to be judging this poetry competition to support a vital campaign. Community assets and key natural habits shouldn’t be lost for shareholders living far away. #ecopoetry Save poetry

#poetry competition open to all #Erasurepoetry #ecopoetry Judged by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Supporting the campaign to Save Penrhos Nature Reserve. Please share.🙏

Naming the Trees is getting closer 😊 #booklaunch #Trees #Saveourforest

Please follow the Penrhos campaign 👇 to save a beloved nature reserve. #follow #followFriday #saveourforest #ecocide

PENRHOS Coastal Park Holyhead is a Red Squirrel Woodland, we are so lucky enough to see them daily. We must continue to protect their habitats. To do this we must stop the development on the UK’s (voted by the public) favourite Park 2022. #stopthechop 🌳🐿️🌳

Llawer o awduron/beirdd gwych i ddilyn yma. Lots of great writers and poets to follow here: 👇 #Poetry #writing #Cymru

#500followers 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Join in from 13th January! #Poetry #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOnBluesky 💙

My latest Only Connect! #Tree Special Newsletter & Book Giveaway is out now! Subscribe before Sunday evening for a chance of winning a copy of @amyjanebeer.bsky.social's 'A Tree A Day'. A fantastic way to celebrate a tree every day in 2025: subscribepage.io/w8XD8O

Never mind Netflix, here's a Welsh log fire....

Saw a kingfisher this year for the first time on this water. No photo just stood still+ watched the unmistakable flash of blue. Had many opportunities to see one over the years but always seemed to be looking in the wrong direction/not sitting long enough. As ever, Mary Oliver has the words. #poetry

Family estrangement is not uncommon, and at Christmas it’s especially painful. Wishing you Wild Geese and your place in the family of things – or wherever you find community.

Heuldro'r gaeaf- Dancing shadows of a long year. Collecting for #WinterSolstice #AlbanArthan Solstice Blessings.

Mark your calendars: 20.12.24 🌀 The Wild Wind poetry challenge begins! Explore nature’s rawest edges and share your work with @alanparry83.bsky.social using #PoemsAbout #WildWind #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity. Feedback and community await!

Straight lines of starlings shuffling #winter #ygaeaf

Can we do a POET Roll Call to see who's all here? #poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!

Diolch yn fawr @booktrust.bsky.social for including ‘Why did my brain make me say it?’ in your December list of Best Books for Children - and with this title! 😍 *Waves to Welsh bookshops and libraries - please consider stocking me!* 📚 #UKKidLit #BookSky

Wedi mwynhau diwrnod yn Y Gelli yn fawr iawn. Darllen o dan y cloc efo beirdd @parthianbooks.bsky.social A little bit of Hay. Enjoyed a day in #HayonWye and reading under the clock tower with @parthianbooks.bsky.social poets #poetsofbluesky #poetry

Tomorrow #HayonWye #poetry

Friday is poetically supercharged with news that my poem, about the divinatory powers of St Teilo, will be published in ‘Afonydd’ with Arachne Press. Teilo’s the magic man of Gower banishing wurms and splitting dolmens! 💪 @nessowen.bsky.social @arachnepress.bsky.social