Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers / Cerddi Afonydd Cymru

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.

Table of Contents:
Sian Northey & Ness Owen Introduction/cyflwyniad Grahame Davies I’r Rhai Dienw Sian Melangell Dafydd Cân Y Ddyfrdwy Gareth Culshaw Horseshoe Falls Robbie Burton Aerfen Taz Rahman 2012 Gwenno Gwilym Cwm Eigiau Martin Daws After the Wheel Susan Walton Culverted Memories Zohrah Evans Mayfly Above the Cegin Ness Owen Oarless Fiona Owen River Song Eabhan Ní Shuileabháin Toad Grug Muse Genod fel ni Manon Awst Aberglaslyn Zoe Brigley Swimming at Dwyfor Siôn Aled Ffiniau Lee Green Ulw Sian Northey Ysgariad Meleri Davies Llyn Can Bwch Haf Llewelyn Nôl I’r Twrch Mair Ifans Glannau Gwernol Suzanne Iuppa The Lampreys Sam Robinson Y Gwrandäwr Pat Edwards The Talk of the Village Si Griffiths Afterdrop Natasha Gauthier The Severn at Llanidloes Chris Kinsey Lugg Lines Jo Mazelis Clear Waters Stevie Krayer Pencelli Hywel Griffiths Afon Rheidol Meg Elis Chwiorydd Nick Rawlinson An Englishman’s Love for the Teifi Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch Coracle on the River Teifi Menna Elfyn I’r lan wrth bont Henllan Kathy Miles The Senility of Water Iris Anne Lewis River Nevern at Newport Eluned Smith Sir Gar Lesley James Cleanliness is Next to Godliness Natalie Ann Holborow Shore Mares Matthew Smith By Teilo’s Waters Rae Howells You Can Tell a Teenager about Limestone Mari George Llwybr Tracey Rhys The Uninvited Guest Mat Troy Duck Race Gareth Writer-Davies Will-o’-the-Wisp at Splott clare e potter Siriol Gwy, Sor Gwy Alun Gibbard Dau Glais Des Mannay Upon Penarth Road Bridge Catrin Mari Cymraeg, Caerdydd ( Y Tâf) Adele Evershed Binary

About the Author :
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