Anima/l by Fiona Owen spoken word containing six hours of the

containing six hours of the poets reading all the poems in the collection

on the other hand

John Forbes

The poems that make up the book’s opening sequence

these poems open with the passing of an old life and culminate in the birth of a new one

Anima/l by Fiona Owen spoken word containing six hours of theGwnewch y pethau bychain Do the little things (Dewi Sant St David) is how Fiona Owen signs off her communications. And she is a poet who understands that the little things are actually the things to which we should be paying our deepest attention the small interactions between people, the word that matters, the objects that hold more than memory and, vitally, the land we live on, the air we breathe, the anima ls and plants we live amongst and with,