Rooted in her island home, Ness Owen's second collection explores what it is to subsist with whatever the tides bring in poems that journey from family to politics, womanhood and language. In the ebb and flow of an ever-changing world, starlings fall from the sky, votes are cast, a village is drowned, a petrified forest is revealed and messages wash up in seaworn bottles on the shoreline.

Ness Owen lives on Ynys Môn off the North Wales coast. This is her first collection. All of the poems are in English, 6 are also provided in Welsh. The poems journey from family to politics and belonging: an underlying connection to home, that feeds a desire to write in the Mother tongue that she speaks, but did not learn to write fluently.

Fifty Welsh poets speak for and with the rivers of Wales. Every poem translated Welsh-English, English- Welsh.