The bilingual format matters here—the Welsh language is used as an assertion of heritage, culture and continuity between land, water, and people.

The collection moves river by river, poem by poem, tracing how water carries language, history, and loss through landscape. These poems attend to use and damage as much as beauty: industrial histories, flooding, erosion, ritual, sit alongside lyric attention and local knowledge. 

Afonydd works as poetry, environmental record, and cultural preservation. It’s a book to read slowly, and to return to, especially if you’re interested in place-based writing that refuses nostalgia.