@arachnepress.bsky.social galwad allan / call out soon.

Please sign the petition below to save this precious space 👇🙏 @arachnepress.bsky.social

Save ASSL@saveassl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@nessowen.bsky.social Hey Ness, your books are part of a Cardiff University library collection that is in danger of being removed to build 4 classrooms, could I please ask for a RT of the petition to help us raise awareness. Thanks for any help you can give.

Diolch i Nation Cymru am gyhoeddi fy erthygl am Benrhos. Many thanks to Nation Cymru for including my article about saving Penrhos Nature Reserve from development into a holiday complex. @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social 1

NationCymru@nation.cymru · 4mo ago

As the decade-long battle over the future of Penrhos Nature Reserve reaches a critical turning point in April 2026, why should this ancient woodland be saved, and can a community-led buyout protect it? ✍️ Ness Owen

For all who are asking about donating to help save penrhos We have the gofund page for Harri and Zach here: gofund.me/98cab2808 We also have our bank account Where you can also donate.

Imagine, if this beautiful lesser celandine carpet disappeared IT WILL, if we as a community don’t raise the funds! bulldozed,500 holiday chalets & a carpark with a 1000 spaces! To visualise a 1000 space carpark that’s: 4-5 full scale football pitches of tarmac! instead of this beautiful image

Achub Penrhos Save Penrhos@save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#wildflowerhour at penrhos nature reserve, lesser Celendine 📸Hilary Paterson Jones

#wildflowerhour cyclamen at penrhos nature reserve 📸Shirley Blease

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social ramsons /wild garlic Penrhos nature reserve this week 📸Hilary Paterson Jones and Val Hughes

#wildflowerhour at penrhos nature reserve, lesser Celendine 📸Hilary Paterson Jones

Plis support Harri and Zach's run to Save Penrhos. @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social 🙏🌳🌲

Chris Packham@chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Penrhos Nature Reserve is under threat . @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social But Harri (12) and Zach (11) are raising money to protect it from development . They’re walking 20 miles and selling cakes ! You can donate here www.gofundme.com/f/please-hel...

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

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 #nadoligllawen 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

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

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 @llyfraucymru.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social

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

bbc.co.uk

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

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

theguardian.com

What is the future for #translation 👇

Arachne Press@arachnepress.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Many thanks to @emmalee1.bsky.social for these lovely words and close reading of Naming the Trees @arachnepress.bsky.social #poetry #ecopoetry 🙏🙏

Arachne Press@arachnepress.bsky.social · last yr.

lovely review of @nessowen.bsky.social 's latest #poetry collection, Naming the Trees from @emmalee1.bsky.social

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!

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

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

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...