A quick nip across the border into England for our final booked event on the A470 tour, at the wonderful Poetry Pharmacy in Bishop’s Castle.
Hosted by Daborah Alma and Pat Edwards, and introduced and translated by editor Ness Owen.
With readings from Ness Owen, Pat Edwards, Jeremy Dixon, Gareth Writer-Davies and Stephen Payne.
Video by Dai Powell: Diana Powell, Sian Northey, Siôn Aled, Gareth Writer-Davies, Stephen Payne and clare e potter read under the trees of Brecon cathedral close, hosted by Leigh and Nicki of The Hours bookshop.
The book is back in stock available from our webshop and good bookshops everywhere
audience under the trees
clare e potter
stephen payne
Gareth Writer-Davies
Sian Northey
Diana Powell
Siôn Aled
Nowhere near the A470 of course, but such a prestigeous venue!
And such lovely people, Pedr ap Llwyd, the librarian (National Librarian, I suppose!), said
it was an amazing, warm, friendly, enriching event and the book is a treasure trove of excellent verse.
and then there was such a gorgeous view over the town and the sea!
view from the library
Our Next A470 event is Sunday 10th July 3:30pm, Gerddi’r Emporiwm, £5 part of Gŵyl Arall Festival, Caernafon. Editors Ness Owen & Sian Northey will be joined by Sion Aled, Sara Louise Wheeler, and Lowri Williams to read and talk about the book.
Intro from Cherry Potts
Ness Owen
Rae Howells (I am authorised to report that the patient survived)
Siôn Aled
Gareth Writer-Davies & Sandra Evans
Diana Powell
Pat Edwards and Siôn Aled
Sara Louise Wheeler
Rhys Owain Williams & Sian Northey
Sian Northey
at this point I realised I was running out of space on the camera, so things got a bit hairy…
Jeremy Dixon and Siôn Aled (sorry, I clipped the beginning)
Lowri Williams (Just in Welsh as the camera ground to a halt)
Did you hear the coverage on the book on Classic FM and on BBC6 Music?
And see the coverage in the Guardian?
Videos for day four of our A470 Tour, at Sennedd-dy Owain Glyndŵr in Machynlleth, hosted by galeri a siop lyfrau pen’rallt.
Poet Lowri Williams and editors Sian Northey and Ness Owen read their own and other poems talk about how A470 came about, the process of creating a bilingual book and the translation decisions they had to make, reading some of their favourite poems from the book in English and Cymraeg, on the way.
Our next date is this coming Thursday 30th June at 7pm, at The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth details and free tickets
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Videos for day three of our A470 Tour, at Siop Llyfrau Hen Bost in Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Simon Chandler, Sara Louise Wheeler, Haf Llewelyn, Lowri Williams and Sian Northey read their poems in English and Cymraeg, Cherry Potts (in English only) and Sian Northey (both) talk about getting the book together, and the accidental joys of GoogleTranslate (Don’t worry, we had professional translators…)
Our next date is this coming Thursday 30th June at 7pm, at The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth details and free tickets
buy the book in print or ebook
Cherry Potts
Sian Northey
Haf Llewelyn
Lowri Williams
Sara Louise Wheeler
Simon Chandler
Videos from our stop at Pontypridd, at Storyville Books.
Thanks to Jeff for hosting (and excellent cakes…)
Captioned versions ( in English) will be shared on social media as we finish them, but here’s the whole thing in the raw, featuring Siôn Aled, Des Mannay, Jeremy Dixon, Nicholas McGaughey, Stephen Payne, clare e potter and the work of Sian Northey and Ness Owen read by Cherry Potts and Siôn Aled
Gareth Writer-Davies performs his A470 poem Lay-by Storey Arms Pass in the very lay-by that inspired it, although not in the same weather!
and in Welsh, (translation by Sandra Evans)
Jeremy Dixon performs his poem from A470 on the spot that inspired it, a lay-by just north of Storey Arms Pass in the Brecon Beacons
Really, this is just for record, as I forgot the clip to attach phone to tripod, so this is epically shaky, and I was trying to get photos and film.
Short bilingual clips from A470 poems by: Des Mannay, Sion Aled, Sian Northey, Jeremy Dixon, Morgan Owen, Tracey Rhys, Lowri Williams, Christina Thatcher, Kevin Mills, Mike Jenkins and Nicholas McGaughey.
Thanks to Cardiff Library for hosting us!
We took advantage of being on the (actual) road with A470 to make videos of the poets reading their poems in the places that inspired them…
This is Stephen Payne reading his poem, Pontypridd Museum, in Pontypridd Museum.
Thanks to Pontypridd Museum/ Diolch a Amgueddfa Pontypridd
for permission to film, and for turning off the video they were playing!
We are back on the road at the end of the month!
