Afonydd

What a breath-taking rolling watery wonderful ride of a book! With a chorus of diverse voices, it honours these vital lifelines in all their fragility and strength, urging a deeper sense of urgency for their protection as concerns over our polluted waterways intensify. A powerful tribute and a call to action.

Deborah Alma, Founder, Poetry Pharmacy

Ranging from moving personal naturalistic recollections of a local river (never, never leave the town) to metaphorical verses of water and symbolic representations of rivers and their meaning for us (water completes us) or (ripples of my own story) one feels inspired and empowered.

A much needed plea for us to wake up and appreciate these natural wonders that we have taken for granted and ignored and polluted for decades - Should be sent to every water company in the UK for its 'not for profit' board members to read.

A beautiful bilingual collection from the poetic sons and daughters of Rachel Carson and John Muir that makes you want to go and sit by your own river and tell it you will protect it. Gobaith. Ymlaen. Patrick Jones

Mae'r gyfrol hon ei hun fel afon: o'i tharddle mewn mawl i'r dinodedd dienw, mae weithiau'n lli carlamus a thro arall yn oedi'n mewn pyllau llonydd; yn gartref i lawer llais rhwng mynydd a m´r, a'r holl obeithion a phryderon a gariwn gyda ni at gyrff o ddŵr. Iestyn Tyne

An anthology of poems about rivers is the obvious eco follow on to Northey and Owen's last outing together, which was to collect verse about the A470, Wales's main trunk road. And it's terrific too - if you didn't know how wilily-wet, watercourse-beset, rill-rich, brook-bombarded, nant-naturalised and aber-anaesthetised Wales was, then start here. Peter Finch

Peth gwerthfawr a chalonogol yw gweld bod nentydd ac afonydd Cymru'n rhedeg trwy ddychymyg a meddyliau ein beirdd. Mae'r gyfrol hon yn rhodd bwysig i bawb sy'n poeni am lendid ac iechyd ein dyfroedd dwyieithog. Gwyneth Lewis

No two rivers are the same. From the least bog-trickle to the two-hundred-mile embrace of Hafren/Severn, each has its own voice, often many voices, each specific to the place it flows through and reflects. This is the insight that makes for such a rich and varied anthology. More than just a showcase for the range and reach of Welsh writing in two equal languages, this is a water-map that catches the whole of Wales, its history and landscapes, its diversity and fine connections, in its glittering net.

Philip Gross, author of A Fold in the River, Troeon/Turnings and The Water Table

Fel yr afonydd y maen nhw'n eu portreadu, mae cerddi'r gyfrol hon ar dro yn chwerthin ac yn tincial, yn rhuo ac yn disgleirio. Wrth ddilyn eu cwrs o'u tarddiad yn nychymyg y beirdd i f´r y dudalen, yn raddol, ymdroellog, daw Cymru yn ei holl amrywiaeth i'r fei. LlÅ·r Gwyn Lewis

Immerse yourself in this river of rivers, its narratives and lyric moments. All our griefs and joys course through it.

Paul Henry