Riverwise: Meditations on Afon Teifi

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Cyfrol o ryddiaith a barddoniaeth hamddenol wedi'i ganoli ar Afon Teifi gan awdur a ddychwelodd i'w sir enedigol wedi cyfnod o fyw oddi yno. Dyma gasgliad o grwydriadau llawn swyn a syndod, yn blethiad o atgofion, cerddi a rhyddiaith sylwgar a chraff, gyda'r awdur yn teithio drwy amser a gofod, gan adlewyrchu prydferthwch mannau cudd a'r rhyfeddod o fod yn aelod o'r hil ddynol.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Riverwise , a volume of slow river prose centred around Afon Teifi, is a book of wanderings and wonderings, witnessings and enchantments, rememberings and endings. Weaving memoir, poetry and keen observation into its meandering course, it shifts across time and space to reflect the beauty of hidden, fluvial places, and to meditate on the strangeness of being human.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Jack Smylie Wild is a poet, nature writer and award-winning baker. Born in Aberystwyth in 1989, but mostly raised on the edge of Dartmoor, he has been moving between Wales and England for nearly 30 years. Jack now resides in Cardigan, with his wife and young son, a stone’s throw from the river he loves.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

"Thoughtful and hypnotic. As rich, lush and meandering as the river it celebrates so well. A book to immerse yourself in, filled with hidden depths and unexpected currents" – Neil Ansell “What a lovely book, written about one of Wales’s most beautiful rivers. An intimate glimpse in prose and poetry by a man with a profound understanding of his subject. Read and enjoy, I certainly did” – Iolo Williams. "This is a labour of love filled with the mud and blood and light and half-light of all the secret places of the river... What a wonderful contribution. I loved it" – Miriam Darlington "(A) fine, absorbing and wonderfully attentive book" Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru "Reading Riverwise, we are reminded to find meaning in what truly matters" Sophie Buchaillard, Wales Arts Review Riverwise, a volume of slow river prose centred around Afon Teifi, is a book of wanderings and wonderings, witnessings and enchantments, rememberings and endings. Weaving memoir, poetry and keen observation into its meandering course, it shifts across time and space to reflect the beauty of hidden, fluvial places, and to meditate on the strangeness of being human. Above all, though, this book stands as a hymn to those fragments of riparian wilderness which on our maps appear as ever- shrinking horns of green amid a white, gridded landscape of human dominance. Riverwise is a clarion call to learn to love and protect the natural world and its waterways. Bio: Jack Smylie Wild is a poet, nature writer and award-winning baker. Born in Aberystwyth in 1989, but mostly raised on the edge of Dartmoor, he has been moving between Wales and England for nearly thirty years. Jack now resides in Cardigan, with his wife and young sons, a stone’s throw from the river he loves.