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Naming the Trees
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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 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. Far more than a book of nature poems there is a simmering frustration at the casual way we despoil our environment without any concern for what is destroyed or the ongoing impact of that destruction. No trees harmed in the making of this book, which is printed on woodfree paper.
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There’s something extraordinary about trees; their age, their stillness, their presence. They live amongst us, full of life and mystery, bridging the deep earth below to the swirling sky above and generally we pass by them with barely a thought. But not Ness Owen. In this outstanding collection of poems, she names the trees and gives them the honour and respect that they deserve. -- Ewan Smith * Good Reads * The poems themselves are light, lovely, leaning towards the lyrical, even hymn-like, with an enmeshed sense of rhythm and metre, which fits this sense of being on the move. Underneath, however, lies the energy of anger, at how we treat the natural world, but it is fittingly channelled into these pieces and gives them energy and heft. Overall, it is effective, enlivening, and affecting. -- Mab Jones
Author Biography
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, A470Related products
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