Cynefin : Wisdom from a thousand years of Welsh nature poetry - Carwyn Graves

Reimagine our relationship with�the natural world�through�the 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�flower,�a�lake�or�a field of�sheep -�not in the abstract but in all its sparkling reality.�