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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Please sign the petition below to save this precious space 👇🙏 @arachnepress.bsky.social

Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Diolch i Nation Cymru am gyhoeddi fy erthygl am Benrhos. Many thanks to Nation Cymru for including my article about saving Penrhos Nature Reserve from development into a holiday complex. @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social 1

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Achub Penrhos Save Penrhos @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

For all who are asking about donating to help save penrhos We have the gofund page for Harri and Zach here: gofund.me/98cab2808 We also have our bank account Where you can also donate.

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Achub Penrhos Save Penrhos @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Imagine, if this beautiful lesser celandine carpet disappeared IT WILL, if we as a community don’t raise the funds! bulldozed,500 holiday chalets & a carpark with a 1000 spaces! To visualise a 1000 space carpark that’s: 4-5 full scale football pitches of tarmac! instead of this beautiful image

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Achub Penrhos Save Penrhos @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

#wildflowerhour cyclamen at penrhos nature reserve 📸Shirley Blease

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Achub Penrhos Save Penrhos @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social ramsons /wild garlic Penrhos nature reserve this week 📸Hilary Paterson Jones and Val Hughes

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Achub Penrhos Save Penrhos @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

#wildflowerhour at penrhos nature reserve, lesser Celendine 📸Hilary Paterson Jones

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Plis support Harri and Zach's run to Save Penrhos. @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social 🙏🌳🌲

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Naming the Trees is a year old. Grateful to everyone who has bought, borrowed, reviewed/said kind words.🙏 Diolch to @ArachnePress a Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru / Books Council of Wales+ to Lou Moore for the gorgeous cover art. Made it to the Forward Prizes commended anthology. Inspired by #SavePenrhos

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Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Q1 Hi, Naomi. It's a pleasure to have you join us for a #WomenWritersNet #AuthorInterview tonight. To get started, can you tell us a bit about yourself and your writing career to date? @ncashmanfiction.bsky.social

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Delighted to be a LONDON Regional & Country Finalist for SMALL PRESS OF THE YEAR in #BritishBookAwards the London list is quite long, but - regional winners announced 10th March. Our submission rests on success of #Afonydd @inpressbooks.bsky.social @nessowen.bsky.social @llyfraucymru.bsky.social

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Our most ordered books this month are #Afonydd and #A470. Worried someone may have already got a copy for the #Cymraeg #Welsh Poetry lover in your life? you could order #Mamiaith or Naming the Trees by @nessowen.bsky.social mostly in English with a core of Welsh poems @llyfraucymru.bsky.social

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

readers of #Cymraeg #Welsh and of writers from #Cymru #Wales Our #noAI #coedennadolig of ( #bilingual) #poetry anthologies/collections from sian northey @nessowen.bsky.social & @hazardpressuk.bsky.social #nadoligllawen last UK post 2nd 16thDec 1st 19thDec arachnepress.com/Poetry-c1217...

a rather lopsided 'christmas tree' made of books with a welsh red dragon instead of a star at the top, on a gold background. the books are A voice coming from then, Afonydd, Mamiaith, Naming the Trees and A470 there are baubles as well.

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Diolch/Many thanks to the judges+team @forwardprizes.bsky.social for including Naming the Trees as highly commended.🙏 Inspired by the campaign to save Penrhos Nature Reserve from being developed. Here's my copy in the leaf wave+rustle of where it began🌳💚 @arachnepress.bsky.social @nation.cymru

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

For the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social day 8 Ness Owen’s ‘Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim’ @nessowen.bsky.social @parthianbooks.bsky.social

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Lovely to get a mention in this Western Mail article about the @arachnepress.bsky.social rivers anthology for my St Teilo saint-wizard poem. Stuff happens when you get published by this press. 🌊 @walesonline.bsky.social @nessowen.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Reading over ‘Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers’ in the pub following the launch with Arachne Press and brilliant poets The Hours, Brecon This evening I read ‘By St Teilo’s Waters’. Thank you Cherry Potts and her team. @arachnepress.bsky.social @nessowen.bsky.social

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Poetry post! Beautiful bilingual poem anthology ‘Afonydd’ from @arachnepress.bsky.social, edited by Sian Northey and @nessowen.bsky.social 😍

Poetry anthology front cover - linoprint style of a landscape scene.

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Catch #SianNorthey and @nessowen.bsky.social on Dros Ginio with Dewi Llwyd on #BBCSounds 45 mins in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... talking (in Cymraeg) about Afonydd: Ceddi Afonydd Cymru @poetrysociety.bsky.social @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @llyfraucymru.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

more Afonydd coverage: Article on bbcnews website w/ @nessowen.bsky.social & natashagauthier (making excellent comparison between Canadian French & Welsh) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Segment on BBCRadioWales breakfastshow w/ Ness Owen & Rae Howells 55 minutes in. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Afonydd: Bilingual poetry book gives Welsh 'equal weight'

A bilingual collection of poems celebrating Wales' rivers gives Welsh and English

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We made the print @theguardian.com! There seems to be an insatiable thirst for #bilingual #Welsh/english #poetry about #rivers... and roads! @inpressbooks.bsky.social @swanseastones.bsky.social @librarywales.bsky.social @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @nessowen.bsky.social preorders: arachnepress.com

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

We have quite the article in @theguardian.com culture online thanks to Steven Morris. Afonydd *and* A470 highlighted. orders flooding in, roughly every 3-5 minutes. setting up a reprint. Thanks @nessowen.bsky.social & @raehowells.bsky.social for quotable quotes! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Publisher behind hit bilingual poetry book on A470 turns to Welsh rivers

Arachne Press says Afonydd (Rivers) was inspired by success of A470: Poems for the Road/Cerddi’r Ffordd

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Many thanks to @emmalee1.bsky.social for these lovely words and close reading of Naming the Trees @arachnepress.bsky.social #poetry #ecopoetry 🙏🙏

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Jumping Jules Poetry @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Such stunning, important poems in #NamingTheTrees from @nessowen.bsky.social published by @arachnepress.bsky.social to help raise awareness and protect Penrhos Nature Reserve. Recommend!

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

TONIGHT!! Blue Sky Versify open mic 7pm upstairs @blueskycafe.bsky.social meic agored, i fyny'r grisiau am 7yh FREE event / DIGWYDDIAD AM DDIM @nessowen.bsky.social reading from her newest collection 'Naming the Trees' Dewch I lawr a wrando a fwynhau noson gwych gyda Ness Owen #Poetry

book cover, a print of bare hawthorn branches threaded with a fence and barbed wire. mostly black and white, tinges of grey/glue sky, and green where one branch is budding. text reads: Naming the Trees, Ness Owen, Arachne Press

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

diolch to LlyfrauCymru/BooksWales for choosing @nessowen.bsky.social Naming the Trees as Book of the Month for March, and for helping to fund it in the first place! lots of events over the next few weeks, starting this Thursday in Holyhead at CanolfanUcheldre #ecopoetry trees penrhos ynysmon

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thursday 06/03 6pm CanolfanUcheldre Holyhead FREE. Join #poets @nessowen.bsky.social karen ankers & more for readings & celebration of Penrhos Nature Reserve at launch of Naming the Trees. Winners of the Penrhos Erasure Poetry & photo competitions will be announced. ucheldre.org/event/naming...

very old drystone wall with mosses growing, dappled light, trees beyond

book cover, a print of bare hawthorn branches threaded with a fence ahd barbed wire. mostly black and white, tinges of grey/glue sky, and green where one branch is budding. text reads: Naming the Trees, Ness Owen, Arachne Press

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

February 27th - #Machynlleth 6pm! Croeso I bawb/ All welcome 😊

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

#Poetry friends, if anyone would like a review copy of Naming the Trees, let me know.🌳💚 #poetrycommunity #ecopoetry #trees #booklaunch #bookreview

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

@nessowen.bsky.social reading Llwybr y Gaeaf (in Winter's Path) from forthcoming (27th Feb) poetry collection Naming the Trees. Buy a copy arachnepress.com/Naming-the-T... Come to an event arachnepress.com/events/ @llyfraucymru.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social @save-achubpenrhos.bsky.social

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

join @nessowen.bsky.social and local poets at Pen'rallt gallery bookshop, Machynlleth, for the 1st in a series of #poetrybooklaunch events for 'Naming the Trees'. 27/02/2025, 6 for 6.30. £5 includes wine/fruit juice/snacks. www.penralltgallerybookshop.co.uk/event-digwyd...

book cover - a complex print of hawthorn branches against a wooden fence and a strand of barbed wire. title reads Naming the Trees - Ness Owen - Arachne Press

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

We are opening submissions on the theme of GRIEF tomorrow! We are looking for poems and short CNF about grief. By this we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, 🧵

A white neon sign on the corner of a house. It says: You're not lost you're here.

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Bit of a wet and misty day at Penrhos today. A perfect day to have a go at the free Penrhos Erasure Poetry Competition. Make poetry out of the developer's empty promises! Guidelines and texts to use here: www.facebook.com/share/1DwLr5... #poetry #ecopoetry #poetrycompetition #Sunday

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

They've arrived! My new collection Naming the Trees. Gorgeous cover art by Lou Moore from her Battle of the Trees exhibition. Inspired by the campaign to save PenrhosNatureReserve @PenrhosSave +all campaigns standing up to protect our greenspaces. #saveourforests #ecopoetry@arachnepress.bsky.social

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Free online event tonight Feb 9th, at 5pm GMT. Croeso I bawb / All welcome #poetry #bilingual Link in events page: m.facebook.com/events/58582...

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

reading by @nessowen.bsky.social menna elfyn @fionaowen.bsky.social coming up (all reading from new and forthcoming collections of which only Ness' is published by us) Ars Draws Y Wlad this Sunday,09/02 5pm Ymuno â’r cyfarfod Zoom/Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting: ID 820 6271 3197 / Passcode: 778893

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Very happy to be judging this poetry competition to support a vital campaign. Community assets and key natural habits shouldn’t be lost for shareholders living far away. #ecopoetry Save poetry

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

#poetry competition open to all #Erasurepoetry #ecopoetry Judged by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Supporting the campaign to Save Penrhos Nature Reserve. Please share.🙏

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Please follow the Penrhos campaign 👇 to save a beloved nature reserve. #follow #followFriday #saveourforest #ecocide

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Hilster @hilster.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

PENRHOS Coastal Park Holyhead is a Red Squirrel Woodland, we are so lucky enough to see them daily. We must continue to protect their habitats. To do this we must stop the development on the UK’s (voted by the public) favourite Park 2022. #stopthechop 🌳🐿️🌳

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Llawer o awduron/beirdd gwych i ddilyn yma. Lots of great writers and poets to follow here: 👇 #Poetry #writing #Cymru

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