A Year of Death and Life in the Tanat Valley

I have written about and illustrated the world around me since my childhood in the 1980’s but it was in January 2024 that I moved to Llanhraeadr-Ym-Mochnant, nestled in the Tanat Valley. It was a formative year in more ways than one. This volume of poetry and drawing charts the seasons of that year and follows two key themes of my creative life, being much informed by my environment as well as the events and observations that unfurl in it. There is death. There is life. There is joy. There is grief. There are careful attempts to describe this being human on days of love and at times of sadness. If you have ever set foot in the Tanat Valley or ever spent time musing on the Human Experiment then maybe, just maybe, there will be something here that also speaks to you.