Gorffennwyd

Inside the image.

The square cover is divided into two sharply contrasting horizontal sections. The upper half is a close-up, high-contrast image of a face tilted back, seen from below and filling most of the panel. The face is rendered in deep black and saturated cyan-blue, with fine, irregular blue contours tracing the brow, nose, lips, cheek and strands of hair. Much of the face falls into shadow, so its features emerge unevenly from the dark field. The head is cropped by the top and side edges; the viewer sees no surrounding setting. Near the bottom of this blue panel, the word “GORFFENNWYD!” appears in thin, widely spaced white capitals, centred across the image. It sits just above the dividing line and is legible against the dark face.

A clean, straight boundary separates the upper image from a white lower panel. Against this open background, a botanical illustration rises from below the bottom edge: a loose cluster of green leaves, fine stems and small white flowers with pale blue-grey centres. The largest leaves sit to the left and centre, with pointed, uneven edges, visible veins and washes of light and dark green. Smaller leaves and flowers branch upwards through the middle. On the right, a brown upright stalk or woody form with a rounded top and a short lateral projection stands among the foliage; its precise identity is unclear. The plant grouping is cut off at the lower edge, while most of the right side of the white panel remains empty. The cover combines a stark, graphic blue-and-black upper image with a delicate, naturalistic, coloured illustration below.