A470Arguably 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 fifty one original poems, translated into and out of Welsh in an entirely bilingual poetry collection which explores where the A470 might take us. Travelling through memory,

translated into Scots

tour-de-force that is The Marathon Poet

Johanna is distraught

While attending St

safe harbours

perfectly clear poems has it

with its alienation

expressed through the voices of contemporary poets from America

yet this small collection

a singular voice

Returning on a troopship from Malaya in 1949

Until one night