Winner of Wrecsam National Eisteddfod crown - 4th Aug.

Crown winner Owain Rhys
Image: https://nation.cymru/culture/winner-of-wrecsam-national-eisteddfod-crown-announced/

Owain Rhys is the winner of the Wrecsam National Eisteddfod crown for his poems about living with a loved one who is suffering with dementia.

The crown – sponsored by Elin Haf Davies – and a cash prize of £750 was presented to Owain in north Wales on Monday (August 4) by Prydwen Elfed Owens.

The prize was awarded for a “pryddest” or collection of poems not in the traditional Welsh style cynghanedd, of no more than 250 lines, on the theme of “Adfeilion” or ruins.

The adjudicators were Ifor ap Glyn, Gwyneth Lewis and Siôn Aled.

The crown was designed and produced by Neil Rayment and Elan Rowlands.

The pair previously created the impressive crown for the Rhondda Cynon Taf Eisteddfod in 2024 – won by Gwynfor Dafydd for his series of poems on “Atgof” – or remembrance.

Head judge Ifor ap Glyn said: “Llif 2 opens with the simple couplet ‘When you forget / every day as you wake’ – and it discusses living with someone suffering from dementia, namely the poet’s mother.

“It’s a quiet and sensitive treatment of what must be done to help the mother continue to live with dignity as her memory deteriorates.

“The collection presents a tender picture of a difficult situation faced by so many families today, and we sense the depth of the poet’s feelings toward his mother and her former strength.”

Text: https://nation.cymru/culture/winner-of-wrecsam-national-eisteddfod-crown-announced/

See also: https://eisteddfod.wales

My Source: BBC Four Episode 1 - 15mins
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002gwyq/eisteddfod-eisteddfod-2025-with-huw-stephens-episode-1

Mary Kelly - Post-Partum Document

From a visit to Liverpool Tate 13.6.2008:

 (Experimentum Mentis III: Weaning from the Dyad)

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Post-Partum Document. Documentation III: Analysed Markings And Diary Perspective Schema (Experimentum Mentis III: Weaning from the Dyad)

1975, Mary Kelly  © Tate 

'Chalk and crayon drawings by Mary Kelly’s son are overlayed with transcriptions, annotations and reflections based on their interactions as he began nursery. These panels are the third group of a six-part series, each documenting a formative moment in Kelly’s son's early life. Kelly has stated that Post-Partum Document is not ‘autobiographical’. She instead uses her story to suggest ‘an interplay of voices – the mother’s experience, feminist analysis, academic discussion, political debate’. The work subverts romanticised depictions of the mother-child relationship, presenting the experience as inevitably bound up with societal norms and gendered expectations.'

See also: Mary Kelly

  dyad : perspective : art

... Feathers ... Light ... Corners

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I love you mum You named me 'Peter' ... Grief, is indeed -	Yesterday, I saw a kestrel and a sparrow hawk .                          . - a thing with feathers
... but it was always you, you are still - the rock - my rock - the reason I'm a nurse ... family community humanity	... and why I will continue to explore and follow ...

"Using Hodges’ model to prove light can travel around all the methods corners" ...

I cannot see you but I know you are there Crux.

"... Two beds and a coffee machine ..."

poetry in lyrics ...

 

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"Wonder how I ever made it through And there are children to think of Baby's asleep in the back seat Wonder how they'll ever make it Through this living nightmare But the mind is an amazing thing Full of candy dreams and new toys ..."	"Another ditch in the road You keep moving Another stop sign You keep moving on And the years go by so fast ..."
	"Another bruise to try and hide Another alibi to write ...."

savage garden

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Hayes Darren Stanley / Jones Daniel

Two Beds and a Coffee Machine lyrics © Rough Cut Music Pty Ltd.

 

Mother?

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Give Up!	Give Up!
GIVE UP!	GIVE UP![You will!]

 

... your baby

 

My source: BBC Radio 4 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57251782

"Mother"

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"Mother!"	Mother Earth Mother Nature
MOTHER	Mother Country

"MOTHER" - model theory emergency - COP26

Marsel Van Oosten, NOW YOU SEE THEM... The Sunday Times Magazine, May 30, 2021. pp.34-39.

Hodges' model: Not just rectilinear, but bubbles too ...

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"To the holistic absorption by the One – upon which the success of so many religions and philosophies was premised for centuries – Sloterdijk opposes the proposition of a dyadic theory of intimacy. This is a distinction between an acute appearance of unity, experienced from a cosmic position of being fully contained inside a whole, and an ontological insistence that this position is itself contingent on a constitutive relationality. It is not possible to attain an overview, an outside bird’s-eye view of spheres (Neither Sun Nor Death, p263). By contrast, ...

"Sloterdijk’s anthropological theory of shared, auto-poetic space, carries ontogenetic force. This is, by example, expressed in the discussion of the relationship between birth and thought, or between the birth of a child and that of a world.35 Sloterdijk dedicates the bulk of Bubbles to birth, providing a detailed discussion of intrauterine dwelling, including the sensory presence of liquids, soft bodies, the early experience of spatial boundaries, fluidal communion in the medium of blood, the constitution of an intimate acoustic bipolar sphere and, above all, cohabitation with the placenta, conceived as primal, anonymous companion. Intrauterine space is approached as the most vivid illustration of the spherological principle according to which coexistence precedes essence. At once enclosed and porous, poetic and connected, intrauterine space is the production of a dense and connected ‘two’: ‘What we call ‘mother and child’ in the abbreviated terms of subject-object language are, in their mode of being, only ever poles of a dynamic in-between’ (Bubbles, p320)." p.47.

By contrast, ... the relational ontology of spheres aims to rehabilitate the relation at the expense of the essential, and the situation at the expense of components (p151). Against any form of substantialism, a relational ontology emphasises the centrality of being-with [Mitsein] in relationships of mother and child, mesmerist and subject, therapist and patient, foetus and placenta, and so forth." p.47.

My source:

Duclos, V. (2019) Falling into Things: 

Peter Sloterdijk, Ontological Anthropology in the Monstrous. 

New Formations, 95, Spaces and Stories, pp. 37-53.

DOI: 10.3898/nEWF:95.03.2018

Book: "Cornerstones of Attachment Research"

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attachment?	attachment?
	attachment?

 

Make sure you consider all the corners - including the spiritual ... 

My source: OUP twitter 

 

Birth and Bubbles - Holistic Spaces

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health services - organisations

... "To the holistic absorption by the One – upon which the success of so many religions and philosophies was premised for centuries – Sloterdijk opposes the proposition of a dyadic theory of intimacy. This is a distinction between an acute appearance of unity, experienced from a cosmic position of being fully contained inside a whole, and an ontological insistence that this position is itself contingent on a constitutive relationality".

"Sloterdijk dedicates the bulk of Bubbles to birth, providing a detailed discussion of intrauterine dwelling, including the sensory presence of liquids, soft bodies, the early experience of spatial boundaries, fluidal communion in the medium of blood, the constitution of an intimate acoustic bipolar sphere and, above all, cohabitation with the placenta, conceived as primal, anonymous companion. Intrauterine space is approached as the most vivid illustration of the spherological principle according to which coexistence precedes essence. At once enclosed and porous, poetic and connected, intrauterine space is the production of a dense and connected ‘two’: ‘What we call ‘mother and child’ in the abbreviated terms of subject-object language are, in their mode of being, only ever poles of a dynamic in-between’ (Bubbles, p320)". ... p.47.

Duclos, V. (2019). Falling into things: Peter Sloterdijk, ontological anthropology in the monstrous. new formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics 95, 37-53. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/715818.

'Lost Luggage': From the many to the one

Lost Luggage, (Cover, goodreads)

Christof, Christophe, 

Christopher and Cristòfol 

- are four brothers – sons of the same father and four very different mothers...

One mother, an English nurse on a cross channel ferry...




The Times, Saturday Review, 25 May 2013, p.17.