A470 Poems for the Road / Cerddi’r Ffordd edited and translated by Sian Northey and Ness Owen Sam J. Grudgings His role there was to

His role there was to lead foot patrols and to operate machines for detecting improvised explosive devices

these poems concern themselves with vulnerabilities and resilience – of the natural world

hybrid territories

Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candor

focusing our attention on the joys of family and art

A470 Poems for the Road / Cerddi’r Ffordd edited and translated by Sian Northey and Ness Owen Sam J. Grudgings His role there was toArguably 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