A470 Poems for the Road / Cerddi’r Ffordd edited and translated by Sian Northey and Ness Owen penned at the margins Elsewhere he develops an adaptation

Elsewhere he develops an adaptation of the Middle English poem Pearl

each represented by a creature

There are two sequences: Songs for the Arctic

Katherine Pierpoint

A470 Poems for the Road / Cerddi’r Ffordd edited and translated by Sian Northey and Ness Owen penned at the margins Elsewhere he develops an adaptationArguably the most famous road in Wales, the A470 is 186 miles from shore to shore through the backbone of Wales, linking north to south. Peaceful and picturesque or slow and never ending: the road out of here, the road home, the beginnings of devolution? Glorious national parks, bypasses, being stuck behind a certain lorry firm or worse, a caravan, the road to the Royal Welsh? From the seashore to slates, from nuclear power stations and fighter plane