Mamiaith Nell Dunn and her affair with Austin’s

and her affair with Austin’s white father

author of Caribbean Poetics (Peepal Tree Press)

whales and islands abound in this first collection by young Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trévien

Mohamed Salah al-Azab

Mamiaith Nell Dunn and her affair with Austin’sNess 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 (Mothertongue) that she speaks, but did not learn to write fluently. The interplay of languages and the shifts of meaning from one to the