Carwyn Graves- Cynefin: Wisdom From a Thousand Years of Welsh Nature Poetry Writing

6.30 at the Castle Hotel

Carwyn’s new book explores the deep cultural roots of our relationship with the natural world in Wales, through the long Welsh poetic tradition.

At a time of biodiversity loss and climate grief, we need to reset our relationship with the natural world. Cynefin helps us hear the voices of people down the centuries who have, through poetry, expressed a different way of connecting with the living world around us. Carwyn Graves explores how the Welsh poetic tradition offers a different view of nature and connecting to our place in the world and demonstrates its power to help us address the challenges we face.  Find fresh perspectives from themes of grief and loss mediated through snow and the cuckoo’s song, to ecological sensibilities in medieval poems and the generosity of the water that drives the water wheel. In a thousand years of poetry we see the natural world portrayed not as a pristine realm but a human home; bittersweet as well as welcoming. Above all Carwyn invites us, through these poems, to encounter nature – in a bee, a seagull, waves on a lake or a sheepdog – not in the abstract but in all its sparkling reality.

Carwyn Graves lives in Carmarthenshire, is an orchardist, charity Director and his previous book, Tir received broad welcome for its deep exploration of the landscape
Chair Ella Peel

Ticket & Access information

The earlybird price of £8.00 will continue until the 31 st March, it will then increase to £10.00, unless you live within 10 miles of Llandovery in which case it will remain at £8.00, you can buy the reduced tickets at the shop..

You will be able to collect or buy your very special tickets, an artwork in themselves, from the bookshop, if you buy your tickets online make sure you click local collection or you will be charged for postage, you may want to print off a copy of your order.

The Castle Hotel is fully accessible.