Ness Owen

Naming the Trees is a year old. Grateful to everyone who has bought, borrowed, reviewed/said kind words.🙏 Diolch to @ArachnePress a Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru / Books Council of Wales+ to Lou Moore for the gorgeous cover art. Made it to the Forward Prizes commended anthology. Inspired by #SavePenrhos

Q1 Hi, Naomi. It's a pleasure to have you join us for a #WomenWritersNet #AuthorInterview tonight.

To get started, can you tell us a bit about yourself and your writing career to date?

@ncashmanfiction.bsky.social

Delighted to be a LONDON Regional & Country Finalist for SMALL PRESS OF THE YEAR in #BritishBookAwards
the London list is quite long, but - regional winners announced 10th March.
Our submission rests on success of #Afonydd
@inpressbooks.bsky.social @nessowen.bsky.social @llyfraucymru.bsky.social

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

a rather lopsided 'christmas tree' made of books with a welsh red dragon instead of a star at the top, on a gold background. the books are A voice coming from then, Afonydd, Mamiaith, Naming the Trees and A470 there are baubles as well.

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
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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

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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

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

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Poetry anthology front cover - linoprint style of a landscape scene.

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
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Afonydd: Bilingual poetry book gives Welsh 'equal weight' A bilingual collection of poems celebrating Wales' rivers gives Welsh and English

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

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

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...

🙏Diolch / Thanks for sharing

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!

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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

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

Thanks for all your support @rhonagreene.bsky.social 💚🌳 So glad it arrived safely and didn't take the scenic route this time.xx

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

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

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 😊

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