Mamiaith by Ness Owen Michael Mackmin he writes: ‘I keep looking

he writes: ‘I keep looking for what has always been mine / searching for it even as I / think of leaving it

I wrote poetry

at the back of our heads

”    —Geraldine Monk

danger or intense concentration

Mamiaith by Ness Owen Michael Mackmin he writes: ‘I keep lookingNess Owen lives on Ynys Mn off the North Wales coast. This is her first collection, and is partly bilingual. The poems journey widely from family and motherhood, to politics, place and belonging: an underlying connection to the earth of Ness home, that feeds a longing desire determination to write in the Mamiaith(Mother tongue) that she speaks, but did not learn to write fluently. The interplay of languages and the shifts of meaning from one to the