“What is it that happens precisely when we encounter someone we love? Do we encounter somebody, or is it animals that come to inhabit you, ideas that invade you, movements that move you, sounds that traverse you? And can these things be parted?”
- Deleuze & Parnet, Conversations, 1977
ALAW TU HWNT I NI ETO NI'N HUNAIN* is a poem written for TROI, TROSI, a multi-strand artist research project organised by Dylan Huw.
Using methods of quotation, fragmentation, and echo; the verbal surface of the poem is considered as a landscape with which to illuminate the living connections between all things.
Within the poem- snowfall, quarries and comets are endowed with meaning, power, and an agency of their own. Here, the delicate threads of thinking-with our world act out as a family in itself, considering care and love as a material space for knowledge-making. The poem is an attempt to celebrate the moment when writing through process (and with the other) gains true access to imagination, as my personal experience of loss and 'inheritance' is held in (and of) the network of literary strings, supported through landscapes real and imagined, and gripped by the human and non-human world of 'kind-of aunts', Canadian bears, and constellations.
* The words 'Alaw tu hwnt i ni eto ni'n hunain' are translated from the poem 'The Man with the Blue Guitar', by Wallace Stevens.
"But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves, A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as they are."

SONIC ESSAY, produced by Kit Edwards, available on Spotify, Google Podcasts and Soundcloud.

TROI, TROSI is a publication and sonic essay composed of new writing which considers fatigue and artistic labour within the conditions of an exhausted climate. They represent the culmination of a year-long process of research and poetics-making, which has looked to correspondence, citational practices and collective experimentation as strategies of navigating the “ongoing ongoingness” of the catastrophic present within wider ecological frameworks. Organised by Dylan Huw in collaboration with Kit Edwards, Catrin Menai and Kandace Siobhan Walker, the publication also features new work by Nat Raha, Becca Voelcker and Angharad Williams with Esyllt Angharad Lewis.





'We make form by living with our senses open among a history of the sensing of others, and then reflecting upon that sensing. When we make a form, by refusing, responding, embellishing, torqueing, we experiment with the sociality of belief. There is an outcome in every case. We can’t yet know what it will be'.
Lisa Robertson, ‘Notes on Form and Belief’