Eat your heart out, Route 66, we have the A470 and the poets to prove it!

We are still working on the exact details but the event will be bilingual, Hosted by editors Sian Northey and Ness Owen, and include poems from Adele Evershed, Angela Graham, KS Moore, Mike Jenkins, Rae Howells [Welsh Libraries author of the month for March], Rebecca Lowe, Siôn Aled, Sammy Weaver, David Matthews, Cas Stockford, Seth Crook, Simon Chandler and others.

A470 Poems for the Road – Cerddi’r Ffordd

Arguably the most famous road in Wales, the A470 is 186 miles from shore to shore through the backbone of Wales, linking north to south. From the seashore to slate quarries, from nuclear power stations and fighter plane flypasts to forests, mountains and the capital city.

Here are 51 original poems, translated into and out of Welsh in an entirely bilingual poetry collection which explores where the A470 might take us.