Bilingual poetry book encourages writing in Welsh

A new bilingual collection of poems celebrating Wales' rivers gives Welsh and English "equal weight" to encourage poets to write in their first language.

Fifty poets from Wales each write about specific waterways in rural as well as urban settings which are of particular significance to them in the collection named Afonydd, Welsh for rivers.

Some poems examine childhood memories, pollution or climate change, while in others the river is symbolic for the Welsh language, representing change.

Every poem is translated either from Welsh to English, or English to Welsh, Publisher Arachne Press said.