Online Booklaunch: Naming the Trees by Ness Owen

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 and literature.

Sparked by a campaign to save the ancient forest of Penrhos, an SSSI on Ynys Môn, from being turned into a holiday camp, Ness explores Welsh folklore of trees and her own love for and engagement with the trees and other wild aspects of her home, as well as more common garden flowers, which should be treated with respect (Daffodils are Dangerous).

Ness Owen has an ongoing conversation with her native language and some poems are presented bilingually: there is a link to be made between the disregarding of native language and the disregarding of native habitat.

We will also be previewing forthcoming bilingual anthology, Afonydd, which Ness co-edits with Sian Northey

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