fionaowen
@fionaowen.bsky.social
Latest book is Anima/l. Poetry/Writing. Song/Cân. Animals. Rhwng/Between. Eco-means-home. Wales/Cymru. Eye of the Storm. Retired Arts/Humanities Associate Lecturer OU.
Interdisciplinary. www.rhwng.com
Interdisciplinary. www.rhwng.com
New poem by me ‘Monsters' with image by Ann Johnson. We draw attention to the sad plight of lobsters at the hands of humans.
Part of 'Creatura': creatura2016.wordpress.com
Compassion is compassion for ALL. Plus check out Crustacean Compassion www.crustaceancompassion.org
Thanks/Diolch.
Part of 'Creatura': creatura2016.wordpress.com
Compassion is compassion for ALL. Plus check out Crustacean Compassion www.crustaceancompassion.org
Thanks/Diolch.
Fiona Owen & Ann Johnson - Creatura
creatura2016.wordpress.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New poem by me ‘Monsters' with image by Ann Johnson. We draw attention to the sad plight of lobsters at the hands of humans.
Part of 'Creatura': creatura2016.wordpress.com
Compassion is compassion for ALL. Plus check out Crustacean Compassion www.crustaceancompassion.org
Thanks/Diolch.
Part of 'Creatura': creatura2016.wordpress.com
Compassion is compassion for ALL. Plus check out Crustacean Compassion www.crustaceancompassion.org
Thanks/Diolch.
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Slava Ukraini.
February 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Slava Ukraini.
I am, of course, delighted that Gorwel has been honoured in this special way - thank you very much, Y Selar. I am very proud of him. 💝 Diolch @huwstephensdj.bsky.social Dwi’n hapus iawn, wrth gwrs, fod Gorwel wedi’i anrhydeddu fel hyn – diolch yn fawr iawn, Y Selar. Dw i’n falch iawn ohono! 💝🌟
Hynod o falch i ddatgelu mai @gorwelowen.bsky.social ydy enillydd Gwobr Cyfraniad Arbennig Y Selar eleni. Amhosib crynhoi popeth mae'r boi yma wedi'i wneud i gerddoriaeth, ond gobeithio bod ein teyrnged bach ni'n arwydd o'n gwerthfawrogiad
Gorwel Owen yn derbyn gwobr Cyfraniad Arbennig Y Selar
Mae’r Selar yn falch iawn i gyhoeddi mai’r cerddor a chynhyrchydd arloesol, Gorwel Owen, ydy enillydd gwobr Cyfraniad Arbennig Gwobrau’r Selar eleni. Datgelwyd y newyddion gan Huw Stephens ar ei ragl...
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February 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I am, of course, delighted that Gorwel has been honoured in this special way - thank you very much, Y Selar. I am very proud of him. 💝 Diolch @huwstephensdj.bsky.social Dwi’n hapus iawn, wrth gwrs, fod Gorwel wedi’i anrhydeddu fel hyn – diolch yn fawr iawn, Y Selar. Dw i’n falch iawn ohono! 💝🌟
February 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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'They attack disabled, migrants, travellers, homeless - next they attack you"
Spotted in Liverpool, UK
Spotted in Liverpool, UK
February 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
'They attack disabled, migrants, travellers, homeless - next they attack you"
Spotted in Liverpool, UK
Spotted in Liverpool, UK
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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
Ars Draws Y Wlad this Sunday,09/02 5pm
Ymuno â’r cyfarfod Zoom/Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting: ID 820 6271 3197 / Passcode: 778893
February 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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
Ars Draws Y Wlad this Sunday,09/02 5pm
Ymuno â’r cyfarfod Zoom/Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting: ID 820 6271 3197 / Passcode: 778893
Creatura is a collaboration between the artist Ann Johnson and poet Fiona Owen - an on-going project that has been quiet for a few years. We are now reviving it - images of our animal kin and accompanying poems.
creatura2016.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/c...
creatura2016.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/c...
Crow
‘Crow’ by Ann Johnson Crowing‘O crows circling over my head and cawing!’ (Charles Simic)For Ellis and my Bewilderness Writing GroupI’ve taken to cawingand the local crowscome – the big …
creatura2016.wordpress.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Creatura is a collaboration between the artist Ann Johnson and poet Fiona Owen - an on-going project that has been quiet for a few years. We are now reviving it - images of our animal kin and accompanying poems.
creatura2016.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/c...
creatura2016.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/c...
I've just booked for this Zoom event and ordered my copy of Ness Owen's new collection. Who else fancies coming along?
Llyfr newydd gan Ness Owen - digwyddiad lansio ar-lein.
Online Booklaunch: Naming the Trees by Ness Owen! Find event and ticket information here - www.outsavvy.com/event/24569/...
Llyfr newydd gan Ness Owen - digwyddiad lansio ar-lein.
Online Booklaunch: Naming the Trees by Ness Owen! Find event and ticket information here - www.outsavvy.com/event/24569/...
Online Booklaunch: Naming the Trees by Ness Owen Tickets - - OutSavvy
Join poet Ness Owen for readings and Q&A at the online launch of her new poetry collection, Naming the Trees.A deep-dive into the human relationship with trees and how trees have shaped folklore a...
www.outsavvy.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I've just booked for this Zoom event and ordered my copy of Ness Owen's new collection. Who else fancies coming along?
Llyfr newydd gan Ness Owen - digwyddiad lansio ar-lein.
Online Booklaunch: Naming the Trees by Ness Owen! Find event and ticket information here - www.outsavvy.com/event/24569/...
Llyfr newydd gan Ness Owen - digwyddiad lansio ar-lein.
Online Booklaunch: Naming the Trees by Ness Owen! Find event and ticket information here - www.outsavvy.com/event/24569/...
By the way, Bishop Budde has a book! Let's send her to the bestseller list. This book is already backordered on some sites. She proved yesterday that she's an expert on the topic about which she has written.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705987...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705987...
How We Learn to Be Brave by Mariann Edgar Budde: 9780593539217 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An inspirational guide to the key junctures in life that, if navigated with faith and discernment, pave the way for us to become our most courageous selves, by the bishop of the famed Episcopal Dioces...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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From a FB post. Hey California friends…my friend’s dog sanctuary in Topanga has burned to the ground. 30 dogs looking for fosters ASAP. Please contact me if you can help, even help for a temporary basis it would do so much . Please call or text me on 248 520 0054
January 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
From a FB post. Hey California friends…my friend’s dog sanctuary in Topanga has burned to the ground. 30 dogs looking for fosters ASAP. Please contact me if you can help, even help for a temporary basis it would do so much . Please call or text me on 248 520 0054
It is a pleasure to share this conversation between the wonderful artist Ann Johnson and me. It is Ann's magnificent 'Hare' that graces the cover of my latest book of poems Anima/l. Thanks for reading, if you do. Diolch am darllen.
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December 13, 2024 at 12:05 PM
It is a pleasure to share this conversation between the wonderful artist Ann Johnson and me. It is Ann's magnificent 'Hare' that graces the cover of my latest book of poems Anima/l. Thanks for reading, if you do. Diolch am darllen.
open.substack.com/pub/fionaowe...
open.substack.com/pub/fionaowe...
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'So naturally, when I went down this aforementioned wormhole, I was thinking: “I wonder if there’s any “lost” post-punk, synth or minimal wave type music that’s sung in Welsh?”'
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@fionaowen.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 8:44 PM
'So naturally, when I went down this aforementioned wormhole, I was thinking: “I wonder if there’s any “lost” post-punk, synth or minimal wave type music that’s sung in Welsh?”'
www.softriot.com/track-of.../...
@fionaowen.bsky.social
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@fionaowen.bsky.social
I'm delighted to share this conversation between my publisher, poet, writer, herbalist Jan Fortune and I. We cover themes important to today's world. I do hope you will take a read and leave us a comment - thank you. Diolch.
open.substack.com/.../immersin....
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November 29, 2024 at 3:39 PM
I'm delighted to share this conversation between my publisher, poet, writer, herbalist Jan Fortune and I. We cover themes important to today's world. I do hope you will take a read and leave us a comment - thank you. Diolch.
open.substack.com/.../immersin....
open.substack.com/.../immersin....
In the general bon homie of this place & in the spirit of following back, I will, though, unfollow immediately if you DM me straight after I have followed back - as I have just done with 3 men. Let’s start as we mean to go - in friendly open ways. Thanks.
November 20, 2024 at 6:24 PM
In the general bon homie of this place & in the spirit of following back, I will, though, unfollow immediately if you DM me straight after I have followed back - as I have just done with 3 men. Let’s start as we mean to go - in friendly open ways. Thanks.
Good. Standards are being maintained. Tate has his mates on X to twit to. Birds of a feather …
Andrew Tate got banned from Bluesky in less than one day.
Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.
Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.
November 20, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Good. Standards are being maintained. Tate has his mates on X to twit to. Birds of a feather …
We’re part of a movement! Be the change. ✨
November 18, 2024 at 2:08 PM
We’re part of a movement! Be the change. ✨
Henffych! Edrach fel mai fyma ydi'r lle i fod erbyn hyn...
By way of introduction, some drones from a 1970s traditional Japanese synthesiser, on a C21 portable recorder, in a neolithic burial chamber near my home.
#BarclodiadYGawres #YnysMôn #RolandSystem100M
By way of introduction, some drones from a 1970s traditional Japanese synthesiser, on a C21 portable recorder, in a neolithic burial chamber near my home.
#BarclodiadYGawres #YnysMôn #RolandSystem100M
November 18, 2024 at 2:07 PM
@leannewood.bsky.social Are you following people back on here or just asking for followers?
November 17, 2024 at 2:00 PM
@leannewood.bsky.social Are you following people back on here or just asking for followers?
Wonderful, Seán! Bravo! ✨
A pleasant surprise of 2024 for me has been that my current book, Wild Track, was a finalist in the Prose Awards Environmental Science Awards. Bloomsbury are bringing it out in paperback in February, and it’s available to pre-order now.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wild-trac...
Wild Track
PROSE AWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE FINALIST 2024Wild Track is an exploration of birdsong and the ways in which that sound was conveyed, described and responded…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Wonderful, Seán! Bravo! ✨
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Twitter is dead. Long live Blue Sky.
The exodus is real.
iandunt.substack.com
November 15, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Yes! Exactly!
I’m seriously loving this platform. It’s like a school reunion. Meeting up with old friends, remembering the good times and forgetting all the bad stuff
November 15, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Yes! Exactly!
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The Age of Unreason
Never in human history have we had greater knowledge, more advanced science, higher abilities to wipe out disease & protect the immunosuppressed. That this bear-napper runs the FDA is truly an Age of Knowing Ignorance
Never in human history have we had greater knowledge, more advanced science, higher abilities to wipe out disease & protect the immunosuppressed. That this bear-napper runs the FDA is truly an Age of Knowing Ignorance
November 15, 2024 at 4:05 PM
The Age of Unreason
Never in human history have we had greater knowledge, more advanced science, higher abilities to wipe out disease & protect the immunosuppressed. That this bear-napper runs the FDA is truly an Age of Knowing Ignorance
Never in human history have we had greater knowledge, more advanced science, higher abilities to wipe out disease & protect the immunosuppressed. That this bear-napper runs the FDA is truly an Age of Knowing Ignorance
As a nerd who loves numbers I keep looking at the rising numbers of Bluesky users on their open source log.....over a million NEW users today 💙💙
Love it
bsky-users.theo.io
Love it
bsky-users.theo.io
Bluesky User Counter
bsky-users.theo.io
November 15, 2024 at 5:51 PM
We are part of the change!
As 🦋 spins faster (going to be 17 million in a few hours) the eXodus is real
As @iandunt.bsky.social says
“it’s giving us a sense of agency. Most of us didn’t even have a vote at the US election, we just had to live with the consequences.”
iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...
As @iandunt.bsky.social says
“it’s giving us a sense of agency. Most of us didn’t even have a vote at the US election, we just had to live with the consequences.”
iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...
Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky.
The exodus is real.
iandunt.substack.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:47 PM
We are part of the change!