Riverwise

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

"Thoughtful and hypnotic. As rich, lush and meandering as the riverit celebrates so well. A book to immerse yourself in, filled with hiddendepths 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 profoundunderstanding of his subject. Read and enjoy, I certainly did”– Iolo Williams."This is a labour of love filled with the mud and blood and lightand half-light of all the secret places of the river... What a wonderful contribution. Iloved 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 ReviewRiverwise, a volume of slow river prose centred around AfonTeifi, is a book of wanderings and wonderings, witnessings andenchantments, rememberings and endings. Weaving memoir,poetry and keen observation into its meandering course, it shiftsacross time and space to reflect the beauty of hidden, fluvialplaces, and to meditate on the strangeness of being human.Above all, though, this book stands as a hymn to those fragmentsof riparian wilderness which on our maps appear as ever-shrinking horns of green amid a white, gridded landscape ofhuman dominance. Riverwise is a clarion call to learn to love andprotect the natural world and its waterways.Bio: Jack Smylie Wild is a poet, nature writer and award-winning baker. Born inAberystwyth in 1989, but mostly raised on the edge of Dartmoor, he has beenmoving between Wales and England for nearly thirty years. Jack now resides inCardigan, with his wife and young sons, a stone’s throw from the river he loves.