Sue Proof 📚💙

My translation of Sian Northey's essay now live: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article.... This completes a set of translations from all six extant #Celtic languages.
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Dyma fy nghyfieithiad o ysgrif Sian, rhan o gasgliad o gyfieithiadau o bob iaith Geltaidd sy'n bodoli heddiw.

It is (and, sorry, it's just called Helm). I've read each narrative thread as a through-story. Now about to re-read it in the order in which it's presented in the book.

The Helm by Sarah Hall.

And if you zoom in far enough, you can see the Afon Adda in #Bangor getting a mention in the newspaper article. My short poem (7" version) about the Adda is in the Afonydd book; the 12" remix as it were, is here: sgwennusue.sueproof.wales/2025/05/09/c...

Wow! Itinerary mostly by train.

Y Ring, Llanfrothen

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Once in a lifetime opportunity to invest in this historic community pub!

Cyfle unwaith mewn oes i fuddsoddi yn y dafarn gymunedol hanesyddol yma!

menteryringllanfrothen.com?fbclid=IwZXh...

YouTube video by Just Another Poet Writing Wales: In Translation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZP0... Me talking about #translating Yn y Tŷ Hwn by Sian Northey, and Emyr Humphreys talking about translating Y Dydd Olaf by Owain Owain into English. Both of these translated from #Cymraeg #Welsh. Emyr also translates from #português #Portuguese.

Dim wedi gwrando i'r bennod hon eto, ond bob tro yn adloniadol a difyr.

www.outsavvy.com/event/25372/... Online lauch. Free without the book, £12 includes the book. For all you #Bangor people, I have a poem in it about Afon Adda.

A bookshop window display for Valentine's Day.

Look what I spotted in the #Valentines window display of Browsers Bookshop, #Porthmadog, @3timesrebel.bsky.social . "Not exactly a meet-cute", I said to the manager. "No, we embrace all forms of love", she said. 😍

Extras - Saesneg Sue A package of extras for reading groups to use with This House: discussion points, extra info about music, poetry and place, and recipes!

We've found since publication of This House that #Welsh #learner groups are also using my package of extras for reading groups. Welcome to them! Croeso i'r darllenwyr #Cymraeg newydd!
saesnegsue.sueproof.wales/extras/
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Immature herring gull standing on an expanse of tarmac with modern buildings and signposts behind.

💙📚One of the photos I've just sent to @arachnepress.bsky.social to illustrate my poem about the Afon Adda in #Bangor North #Wales. This river is culverted from source to sea. Bilingual Cymraeg/English anthology 'Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers/ Cerddi Afonydd Cymru' out in May.

If you're involved with a #plygain service this Christmas, and you want a translation of a plygain carol that's singable in English, here's a translation into English I did a few years back of ‘Gwêl yr Adeilad', fitted to the tune. sgwennusue.sueproof.wales/2018/03/09/b...

Notes at: sgwennusue.sueproof.wales/2019/12/11/d...

Text of a poem.

It's that day again. Wrote this #OTD in 2019, dreading the next day's UK general election. @oldenoughtosay.bsky.social , you might like this.

Road sign.

It's as good as this old meme chestnut; Welsh reads: 'I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.'

#food writing

Y Pod - Colli'r Plot Colli'r Plot gyda Bethan Gwanas, Dafydd Llewelyn, Siân Northey a Manon Steffan Ros. <br /><br />Pedwar awdur sy'n bustachu efo plotiau yn gyson ac yn aml yn ei cholli hi.<br /><br />Fe fydd yna lot o ...

📚💙Ydych chi'n gwrando ar bodlediad misol Colli'r Plot? Trafodaeth ddifyr am y byd sgwennu a llyfrau bob tro, ar ben adolygon llyfrau yn y Gymraeg a'r Saesneg gan 5 awdur profiadol. Good listening for #Cymraeg learners too.
ypod.cymru/podlediadau/...

Extras - Saesneg Sue A package of extras for reading groups to use with This House: discussion points, extra info about music, poetry and place, and recipes!

📚💙And on the subject of #food in #fiction, my package of #bookclub / #readinggroup extras for readers of This House gives the #recipe for the lush Tante Adèle’s Pudding, and an interesting way of cooking green beans. saesnegsue.sueproof.wales/extras/
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The Food Programme - Once Upon a Mealtime - BBC Sounds Sheila Dillon explores how leading children's writers depict food in their books.

📚💙Anyone hear today's Food Programme on Radio 4, about descriptions of food in children's fiction? Worth a listen on Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/....

the-toast.net/2016/03/22/e... Thanks to Sam Jordison of Galley Beggar Press, who was our guide through six novels on a Critical Reading, Critical Writing course. Wuthering Heights was one of them.

📚💙Do you run a #book / #reading club or group? Are you a member of one? (Or maybe you're an individual who likes to read more about a book.) Here's my latest blog post – a special extra one to complement the experience of reading This House. saesnegsue.sueproof.wales/extras/

The failing exams from not working hard enough sort of loser. It all worked out later: got a distinction for my MSc at 34.

📚💙 Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny. Sorry to tell you, Big Bearded Bookseller, I didn't buy it from a bookseller – I got it at a charity stall in a church porch. Proceeds for the upkeep of the church roof, or some such. ⛪

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Have your brain pipes frozen?

💙📚 saesnegsue.sueproof.wales/p-day/ New blog post! This blog is documenting being a mentored early-career literary translator. #TranslationTuesday #Translation #AmTranslating