A publisher that produced a bestselling anthology about the main trunk road through Wales is launching a new collection of poems about Welsh rivers. Editors Sian Northey and Ness Owen, who put together poems for A470: Poems for the Road / Cerddi’r Ffordd, for Arachne Press, have now produced the new bilingual anthology, Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers/ Cerddi Afonydd Cymru. It is comprised of “specific poems about particular rivers, from their source, tributaries, through course, to estuary – washing up against the rural, the urban, the industrial, the unspoiled”.

The new anthology has already been reported in the Guardian, with the publishers saying that both collections are temporarily out of stock as a result! 

The new anthology is being launched at a series of bilingual readings, beginning at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth on Thursday 22 May at 5pm, and on Zoom the follwoing week. Other readings are taking place at Brecon, Bishops Castle, and Cardiff. You can find all the details about the readings on Write Out Loud’s Gig Guide.