Jon Gower is a writer and documentary-maker for radio and television, and the editor of the online news platform Nation.Cymru. He has over 30 books, creative and non-fiction, to his name. He is also a passionate naturalist, with a particular interest in birds.
Mae Jon Gower yn awdur a gwneuthurwr rhaglenni dogfen ar gyfer radio a theledu, ac yn olygydd y platfform newyddion ar-lein Nation.Cymru. Mae ganddo dros 30 o lyfrau i’w enw, yn greadigol ac yn ffeithiol. Mae hefyd yn naturiaethwr brwd, sy’n ymddiddori’n arbennig mewn adar.
Natural History and Human History
For Creative Connections Jon spent many months exploring and researching the history of the Irish Sea, its wildlife and its coastal and port communities. He also explored the coastal hinterlands, visiting internationally important wildlife habitats. His resulting book, The Turning Tide (Harper Collins, 2023) is a vivid criss-crossing voyage of discovery charting Irish Sea connections across the centuries. A beautifully illustrated pamphlet, A Flock of Words, excerpts some of his most powerful writing about the region’s maritime bird populations, migrations and colonies.
Hanes Naturiol a Hanes Dynol
Ar gyfer Cysylltiadau Creadigol treuliodd Jon fisoedd lawer yn archwilio ac ymchwilio i hanes Môr Iwerddon, ei fywyd gwyllt a chymunedau’r glannau a’r porthladdoedd. Bu hefyd yn archwilio cefnwlad y glannau, gan ymweld â chynefinoedd bywyd gwyllt o bwysigrwydd rhyngwladol. Mae ei lyfr dilynol, The Turning Tide (Harper Collins, 2023) yn siwrnai o ddarganfod sy'n olrhain cysylltiadau Môr Iwerddon ar draws y canrifoedd. Mae pamffled sydd wedi'i darlunio'n hyfryd, A Flock of Words, yn dangos peth o'i waith ysgrifennu mwyaf pwerus am boblogaethau adar morwrol y rhanbarth, eu hymfudiadau a’u nythfeydd.
These writings were the result of various journeys made in and between Wales and Ireland as part of a commission for the European-funded project Ports, Past and Present.
Wexford Wildfowl Reserve hosts about two-thirds of Ireland’s approximately 12,000 Greenland White-fronted Geese, which make up half the world population.
