Love Letters on the River

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Gan ddisgrifio'r holl gyfarfyddiadau bywyd gwyllt - rhai go iawn a rhai coll - ar lannau'r Teifi, mae Love Letters on the River yn deyrnged delynegol, onest a thyner i'r creaduriaid niferus - yn yr ardd a thu hwnt i wal yr ardd - sy'n dod â llawenydd i fywyd Carly dim ond trwy fodoli.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Describing encounters and missed encounters with the wildlife that surrounds the Teifi, Love Letters on the River is a lyrical, honest and tender tribute to the many creatures - both in the garden and beyond the garden wall - that bring joy to Carly's life simply by existing.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Foreword BEYOND THE GARDEN WALL: Mating Cuckoos by Foxhill Farm Juvenile Osprey on the Teifi Estuary Skydancing Ravens at Cwm Gwaun Nightjar at Cross Inn Forest Bittern at the Teifi Marshes IN THE GARDEN: Runty Tapdancing Tawny Owls Steak Dinner for Four Des Res Pumpkin Eyes The Bereft Sparrowhawk Dawn Chorus BEYOND THE GARDEN WALL: Winter Barn Owl over the Teifi Marshes Hobbies at Cors Caron Swifts at the Watch House Racing Swans on the Teifi Murmurating Starlings over the Teifi Marshes Crossbills at Pantmaenog Forest Afterword

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Carly Holmes lives and writes in a small village on the banks of the river Teifi in west Wales. She is the author of the novels The Scrapbook , which was shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award, and Crow Face, Doll Face . Her short story collection, Figurehead , was published by Tartarus Press in limited edition hardback and reprinted in paperback by Parthian Books. She has had numerous stories published in journals and anthologies.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Includes a dozen black and white illustrations commissioned exclusively for this publication by acclaimed local artist Guy Manning. "a deeply evocative meditation on the Teifi river, its wildlife, and the surrounding landscape ... As well as being a book to lose yourself in, it adds to the growing body of ecological writing that could help to reshape and rebalance the Earth." Jenny White, Western Mail "With so much of what we might call ‘new nature writing’ now which focuses on the plight of the planet – and rightly so – it’s been a pleasure to sit back for once and just enjoy the pure elation of traditionally immersive and beautiful nature writing... Love Letters on the River provides a reminder of why we love nature, how we appreciate it, and when that happens we naturally want to protect it." Lottie Williams, Nation.Cymru "Holmes’ love letters, addressed to water, to weather, to the wild world we forget we belong to, are tender but un-whimsical, rooted in the real. And the result is beguiling: an unconventional devotional, full of feeling, wild magic, and awe." Mab Jones, Buzz Magazine From a young age Carly Holmes has been in thrall to the creatures that live around us. Her childhood companion was a blind gander called Beep Beep who thought she was his wife. She nearly postponed her wedding when a pair of wrens nested in a hole by her back door and cut it very fine to fledge their chicks into an assorted audience of cats and magpies. This collection of essays, beautifully illustrated throughout, are each of them love letters to the Teifi valley and to the river that winds through Carly's days. The wild animals - the badgers who visit nightly for peanuts; the juvenile osprey who learned to fish on the estuary across the lane; the young jackdaw she nurtured until it was healthy enough to ignore her whenever she went into the garden; the cuckoos she discovered in flagrante one afternoon on a lockdown walk - are the very heart of it.