The unpredictable water orchestrates a force of sound through a watchful landscape. A constant breath reverberates as clouds spread themselves to bear weightless shades across wind-carved trees and whales of rock. Transforming the quivering flux into a circuit of power, an upfling of savagery its drenched elements hurrying into frame, transparent and deep-seated where the traveller's eye translates the chaotic and reconciled scene.
Byron Beynon coordinated Wales's contribution to the anthology Fifty Strong (Heinemann). His work has featured in several publications including San Pedro River Review, Cyphers, Nixes Mate, Wasafiri, The London Magazine, Poetry Wales, Third Wednesday, English: The Journal of the English Association and the anthology The Polaris Trilogy (Poems for the Moon - published by Brick Street Poetry, Inc 2023). He is the author of several collections including The Echoing Coastline (Agenda Editions). His most recent collection Where Shadows Stir (The Seventh Quarry Press) was launched at the birthplace of Dylan Thomas, Swansea, in February 2023.
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