10 new poems of hope, nature and community for We Feed the UK, from the UK farmers changing nature, food and life for the better.

Poem: 'Trwsio'r Tir (Land Mending)'
Inspired by: The Penpont Project
Written and Performed by: Hot Poet, Ifor ap Glyn
Location: Wales
Filmed by: Jon Hardy, Counterstate Films
Language: Welsh with English & Welsh subtitles

We Feed The UK (seeded by The Gaia Foundation) is a major arts project pairing award-winning poets and photographers with the UK’s most inspiring regenerative farmers and food producers. These groundbreaking collaborations will celebrate Britain’s custodians of soil, sea and seed, showcasing their positive solutions to climate change, the biodiversity crisis and social justice.

About the Farmers
The UK’s largest intergenerational nature restoration project began in Bannau Brycheiniog (the Brecon Beacons) in 2019. The Penpont Project’s custodians are a co-management council of 13-18-year-olds, tenant farmers, landowners, and the charity Action for Conservation. As Penpont’s young people start to tread the footsteps of their forebears, they are rediscovering lost place names – Pwll y Drainog (Pool of the Hedgehog), Gwern Ffawr (Big Alder Bog) and Heol Ddu (The Dark Road).

About the Poet
Ifor ap Glyn is a Welsh language writer and performer and has worked as a presenter, writer and producer for television and radio (BBC). A two time winner of the Crown for poetry at the National Eisteddfod (1999 and 2013), he has been Bardd Plant Cymru (Children’s Poet for Wales) and between 2016-22 was Bardd Cenedlaethol Cymru/ National Poet of Wales.

Hot Poets is an award-winning Arts organisation, working in the highest levels and deepest roots of the climate space to powerfully communicate climate change science and action through spoken word poetry . Integral to our partnership with We Feed the UK, is the commissioning of world class regional poets, reflecting the broad diversity of voices and communities.

Watch all the poems and find out more at:

wefeedtheuk.org
hotpoets.org

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