Sian Northey is a freelance author, poet and translator. A first language Welsh speaker, she writes in Welsh/Cymraeg and mainly translates from English to Welsh, and occasionally in the other direction. Sian was brought up in Trawsfynydd, and now lives in Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd. A translation (Susan Walton ) of Sian’s novel 'Yn y Tŷ Hwn' was published under the title 'This House' in 2024. Currently she is working on a novel where a small group of women face the closure of their chapel in rural Wales as the congregation dwindles. Sian has, through Literature Across Frontiers, visited Kerala as a member of a translation poetry workshop and until recently she was Writer in Residence on an 18-month-long heritage project run by the Church in Wales, which included a week as Writer in Residence on Bardsey/Ynys Enlli. After co-editing Arachne's first bilingual anthology, A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi'r Ffordd, with Ness Owen, she is very much looking forward to working with her again on Afonydd. Sian has poems in Arachne Anthologies, A470, and Menopause *the* Anthology.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 published her bilingual first collection, Mamiaith; and for whom she co-edited best selling bilingual Welsh poetry anthology, A470

• Sian Northey & Ness Owen Introduction/cyflwyniadGrahame Davies I’r Rhai DienwSian Melangell Dafydd Cân Y DdyfrdwyGareth Culshaw Horseshoe FallsRobbie Burton AerfenTaz Rahman 2012Gwenno Gwilym Cwm EigiauMartin Daws After the WheelSusan Walton Culverted MemoriesZohrah Evans Mayfly Above the CeginNess Owen OarlessFiona Owen River SongEabhan Ní Shuileabháin ToadGrug Muse Genod fel niManon Awst AberglaslynZoe Brigley Swimming at DwyforSiôn Aled FfiniauLee Green UlwSian Northey YsgariadMeleri Davies Llyn Can BwchHaf Llewelyn Nôl I’r TwrchMair Ifans Glannau GwernolSuzanne Iuppa The LampreysSam Robinson Y GwrandäwrPat Edwards The Talk of the VillageSi Griffiths AfterdropNatasha Gauthier The Severn at LlanidloesChris Kinsey Lugg LinesJo Mazelis Clear WatersStevie Krayer PencelliHywel Griffiths Afon RheidolMeg Elis ChwioryddNick Rawlinson An Englishman’s Love for the TeifiSamantha Wynne-Rhydderch Coracle on the River TeifiMenna Elfyn I’r lan wrth bont HenllanKathy Miles The Senility of WaterIris Anne Lewis River Nevern at NewportEluned Smith Sir GarLesley James Cleanliness is Next to GodlinessNatalie Ann Holborow Shore MaresMatthew Smith By Teilo’s WatersRae Howells You Can Tell a Teenager about LimestoneMari George LlwybrTracey Rhys The Uninvited GuestMat Troy Duck RaceGareth Writer-Davies Will-o’-the-Wisp at Splottclare e potter Siriol Gwy, Sor GwyAlun Gibbard Dau GlaisDes Mannay Upon Penarth Road BridgeCatrin Mari Cymraeg, Caerdydd ( Y Tâf)Adele Evershed Binary

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Sian Northey is a freelance author, poet and translator. A first language Welsh speaker, she writes in Welsh/Cymraeg and mainly translates from English to Welsh, and occasionally in the other direction. Sian was brought up in Trawsfynydd, and now lives in Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd. A translation (Susan Walton ) of Sian’s novel 'Yn y Tŷ Hwn' was published under the title 'This House' in 2024. Currently she is working on a novel where a small group of women face the closure of their chapel in rural Wales as the congregation dwindles. Sian has, through Literature Across Frontiers, visited Kerala as a member of a translation poetry workshop and until recently she was Writer in Residence on an 18-month-long heritage project run by the Church in Wales, which included a week as Writer in Residence on Bardsey/Ynys Enlli. After co-editing Arachne's first bilingual anthology, A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi'r Ffordd, with Ness Owen, she is very much looking forward to working with her again on Afonydd. Sian has poems in Arachne Anthologies, A470, and Menopause *the* Anthology.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 published her bilingual first collection, Mamiaith; and for whom she co-edited best selling bilingual Welsh poetry anthology, A470

• Sian Northey & Ness Owen Introduction/cyflwyniadGrahame Davies I’r Rhai DienwSian Melangell Dafydd Cân Y DdyfrdwyGareth Culshaw Horseshoe FallsRobbie Burton AerfenTaz Rahman 2012Gwenno Gwilym Cwm EigiauMartin Daws After the WheelSusan Walton Culverted MemoriesZohrah Evans Mayfly Above the CeginNess Owen OarlessFiona Owen River SongEabhan Ní Shuileabháin ToadGrug Muse Genod fel niManon Awst AberglaslynZoe Brigley Swimming at DwyforSiôn Aled FfiniauLee Green UlwSian Northey YsgariadMeleri Davies Llyn Can BwchHaf Llewelyn Nôl I’r TwrchMair Ifans Glannau GwernolSuzanne Iuppa The LampreysSam Robinson Y GwrandäwrPat Edwards The Talk of the VillageSi Griffiths AfterdropNatasha Gauthier The Severn at LlanidloesChris Kinsey Lugg LinesJo Mazelis Clear WatersStevie Krayer PencelliHywel Griffiths Afon RheidolMeg Elis ChwioryddNick Rawlinson An Englishman’s Love for the TeifiSamantha Wynne-Rhydderch Coracle on the River TeifiMenna Elfyn I’r lan wrth bont HenllanKathy Miles The Senility of WaterIris Anne Lewis River Nevern at NewportEluned Smith Sir GarLesley James Cleanliness is Next to GodlinessNatalie Ann Holborow Shore MaresMatthew Smith By Teilo’s WatersRae Howells You Can Tell a Teenager about LimestoneMari George LlwybrTracey Rhys The Uninvited GuestMat Troy Duck RaceGareth Writer-Davies Will-o’-the-Wisp at Splottclare e potter Siriol Gwy, Sor GwyAlun Gibbard Dau GlaisDes Mannay Upon Penarth Road BridgeCatrin Mari Cymraeg, Caerdydd ( Y Tâf)Adele Evershed Binary

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Sian Northey is a freelance author, poet and translator. A first language Welsh speaker, she writes in Welsh/Cymraeg and mainly translates from English to Welsh, and occasionally in the other direction. Sian was brought up in Trawsfynydd, and now lives in Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd. A translation (Susan Walton ) of Sian’s novel 'Yn y Tŷ Hwn' was published under the title 'This House' in 2024. Currently she is working on a novel where a small group of women face the closure of their chapel in rural Wales as the congregation dwindles. Sian has, through Literature Across Frontiers, visited Kerala as a member of a translation poetry workshop and until recently she was Writer in Residence on an 18-month-long heritage project run by the Church in Wales, which included a week as Writer in Residence on Bardsey/Ynys Enlli. After co-editing Arachne's first bilingual anthology, A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi'r Ffordd, with Ness Owen, she is very much looking forward to working with her again on Afonydd. Sian has poems in Arachne Anthologies, A470, and Menopause *the* Anthology.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 published her bilingual first collection, Mamiaith; and for whom she co-edited best selling bilingual Welsh poetry anthology, A470

• Sian Northey & Ness Owen Introduction/cyflwyniadGrahame Davies I’r Rhai DienwSian Melangell Dafydd Cân Y DdyfrdwyGareth Culshaw Horseshoe FallsRobbie Burton AerfenTaz Rahman 2012Gwenno Gwilym Cwm EigiauMartin Daws After the WheelSusan Walton Culverted MemoriesZohrah Evans Mayfly Above the CeginNess Owen OarlessFiona Owen River SongEabhan Ní Shuileabháin ToadGrug Muse Genod fel niManon Awst AberglaslynZoe Brigley Swimming at DwyforSiôn Aled FfiniauLee Green UlwSian Northey YsgariadMeleri Davies Llyn Can BwchHaf Llewelyn Nôl I’r TwrchMair Ifans Glannau GwernolSuzanne Iuppa The LampreysSam Robinson Y GwrandäwrPat Edwards The Talk of the VillageSi Griffiths AfterdropNatasha Gauthier The Severn at LlanidloesChris Kinsey Lugg LinesJo Mazelis Clear WatersStevie Krayer PencelliHywel Griffiths Afon RheidolMeg Elis ChwioryddNick Rawlinson An Englishman’s Love for the TeifiSamantha Wynne-Rhydderch Coracle on the River TeifiMenna Elfyn I’r lan wrth bont HenllanKathy Miles The Senility of WaterIris Anne Lewis River Nevern at NewportEluned Smith Sir GarLesley James Cleanliness is Next to GodlinessNatalie Ann Holborow Shore MaresMatthew Smith By Teilo’s WatersRae Howells You Can Tell a Teenager about LimestoneMari George LlwybrTracey Rhys The Uninvited GuestMat Troy Duck RaceGareth Writer-Davies Will-o’-the-Wisp at Splottclare e potter Siriol Gwy, Sor GwyAlun Gibbard Dau GlaisDes Mannay Upon Penarth Road BridgeCatrin Mari Cymraeg, Caerdydd ( Y Tâf)Adele Evershed Binary

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