Book description
Riverwise, a volume of slow river prose centred around Afon
Teifi, is a book of wanderings and wonderings, witnessings and
enchantments, rememberings and endings. Weaving memoir,
poetry and keen observation into its meandering course, it shifts
across time and space to reflect the beauty of hidden, fluvial
places, and to…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Riverwise as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In this short and exquisitely beautiful book, the author takes us on his wanderings around a river in West Wales not far from his home: journeys in places no longer deemed important in the modern world, reclaimed by nature. They’re intimate, small, meditative walks into hidden and overgrown landscapes: an island of tangled, quiet beauty where he can contemplate his surroundings; a ruined cottage made of stone and wood that will eventually crumble back into the ground, and the objects that he finds abandoned, full of imagined meaning. Its poetic words are joyful without being strained, ‘a hymn to those…
From Jen's list on wild and abandoned island places.
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