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Ness Owen
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Poet, lecturer,Cymraes. Books-Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim #ParthianBooks Mamiaith #ArachnePress-co-editor of A470 Cerddi'r Ffordd/Poems for the road +Afonydd- Rivers. Winner #Greenpeace 's #PoemforthePlanet 2022 #YnysMon New collectionNaming the Trees 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · Sep 28
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
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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
September 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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For the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social day 8 Ness Owen’s ‘Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim’ @nessowen.bsky.social @parthianbooks.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
June 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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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
June 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Poetry post! Beautiful bilingual poem anthology ‘Afonydd’ from @arachnepress.bsky.social, edited by Sian Northey and @nessowen.bsky.social 😍
Poetry anthology front cover - linoprint style of a landscape scene.
May 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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
May 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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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
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May 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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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/...
Afonydd: Bilingual poetry book gives Welsh 'equal weight'
A bilingual collection of poems celebrating Wales' rivers gives Welsh and English
www.bbc.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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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
May 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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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...
Publisher behind hit bilingual poetry book on A470 turns to Welsh rivers
Arachne Press says Afonydd (Rivers) was inspired by success of A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi’r Ffordd
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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What is the future for #translation 👇
arachnepress.bsky.social Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · Apr 25
Great to see this comment piece by @nessowen.bsky.social on @thebookseller.com today. Ness makes the essential case for valuing human #translators, ahead of publication of our bilingual #Afonydd - a feat of Welsh to English and English to Welsh translation. #poetry #poetryintranslation #WalesFocus
thebookseller.com The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Apr 25
Each time I translate a poem, I learn something new about my languages. It is difficult to imagine how AI will ever provide this richness says Ness Owen 👇 #BookSky
April 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Many thanks to @emmalee1.bsky.social for these lovely words and close reading of Naming the Trees @arachnepress.bsky.social #poetry #ecopoetry 🙏🙏
arachnepress.bsky.social Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · Apr 17
lovely review of @nessowen.bsky.social 's latest #poetry collection, Naming the Trees from @emmalee1.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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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!
March 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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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
book cover, a print of bare hawthorn branches threaded with a fence and barbed wire. mostly black and white, tinges of grey/glue sky, and green where one branch is budding. text reads: Naming the Trees, Ness Owen, Arachne Press
March 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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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
March 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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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...
very old drystone wall with mosses growing, dappled light, trees beyond book cover, a print of bare hawthorn branches threaded with a fence ahd barbed wire. mostly black and white, tinges of grey/glue sky, and green where one branch is budding. text reads: Naming the Trees, Ness Owen, Arachne Press
March 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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It's #publicationday for Naming the Trees 💚🌳 You can have a peek here👇 @arachnepress.bsky.social #poetry #saveourforest @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social 🙏
jellybooks.bsky.social Jellybooks Ltd @jellybooks.bsky.social · Feb 27
New from @arachnepress.bsky.social

'Naming the Trees' by @nessowen.bsky.social

A deep-dive into the human relationship with trees and how trees have shaped (Welsh) folklore and literature.

buy @waterstones.bsky.social

📖 sample to peek isndie and share
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Sample of "Naming the Trees" by Ness Owen
Peek inside this book and discover another great read.
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February 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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February 27th - #Machynlleth 6pm! Croeso I bawb/ All welcome 😊
arachnepress.bsky.social Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · Feb 24
Don't miss @nessowen.bsky.social reading from her latest #poetry collection, Naming the Trees, at Pen'rallt gallery bookshop, #Machynlleth on #publicationday this Thursday 27th Feb 6pm for 6.30 £5 includes refreshments and local poets @ontheoutbreath.bsky.social and suzanne iuppa
February 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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#Poetry friends, if anyone would like a review copy of Naming the Trees, let me know.🌳💚 #poetrycommunity #ecopoetry #trees #booklaunch #bookreview
February 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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@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/
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February 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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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...
book cover - a complex print of hawthorn branches against a wooden fence and a strand of barbed wire. title reads Naming the Trees - Ness Owen - Arachne Press
February 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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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, 🧵
A white neon sign on the corner of a house. It says: You're not lost you're here.
February 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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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
February 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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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 #ecopoetry@arachnepress.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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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...
February 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM