Description
Ness Owen lives on Ynys Mon off the North Wales coast. This is her first collection, and is partly bilingual. The poems journey widely from family and motherhood, to politics, place and belonging: an underlying connection to the earth of Ness' home, that feeds a longing/desire/determination to write in the Mamiaith (Mothertongue) that she speaks, but did not learn to write fluently. The interplay of languages and the shifts of meaning from one to the other feed the musicality of the poems.
Most of the poems were written in English, five have been additionally translated into Welsh (with help from Sian Northey) one was written in Welsh and translated into English by Ness.
About the Author
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 also published her bilingual first collection, Mamiaith.
Book Information
ISBN 9781909208773
Author Ness Owen
Format Paperback
Page Count 48
Imprint Arachne Press
Publisher Arachne Press
