A470 - Poems for the Road/Cerddi'r Ffordd — Poems for the Road/Cerddi'r Ffordd

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Be ydi'r A470 i chi – siwrne dawel trwy harddwch Cymru neu daith araf a diddiwedd? Ai hon yw'r ffordd i adael, neu'r ffordd adref, neu ddechrau datganoli? Parciau Cenedlaethol, ffyrdd osgoi, llusgo mynd tu ôl i lori neu waeth fyth garafán, y ffordd i'r Sioe Frenhinol?

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

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. 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?

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Contents/Cynnwys The Road Traverses Glyn Edwards Introduction/Cyflwyniad Sian Northey and Ness Owen Road Hog Des Mannay Hacrwch Siôn Aled A Mountain We Climb Rhys Owain Williams Blaenau Road Sign Happiness Cas Stockford Blodeuwedd Crosses the Road Diana Powell Rhyw Bedair Awr Sian Northey I’r A470 Tudur Dylan Jones Allan o Betrol Gwyn Parry Storm Journey Eabhan Ní Shuleibháin Gwydion Southbound Kevin Mills Ar y ffordd adra Haf Llewelyn Travel Sick Ness Owen Tickets Gareth Culshaw Gyrru Trwy’r Tywyllwch Non Prys Ifans Red Flowers Mike Jenkins Commins Coch Osian Owen North/South Divide Nicholas McGaughey Someone Coughs in Another Language Seth Crook The Cambrian Way Rebecca Lowe Cynhadledd yn y Gwesty Gwyrdd Sara Louise Wheeler The Art of Embroidering a Road Through the Eye of Heaven Adele Evershed Ancient Navigations Matthew M.C. Smith More Than Winter K.S. Moore Eira ar y Bannau Mari George Pipistrelle Rae Howells Oh Road Julian Brasington Like My Jealousy Jeremy Dixon A470, 2021 Annes Glynn Unzipping Wales Ben Ray Pwll y Wrach Sammy Weaver Ar ffo (A470) Osian Jones Lay-By, Storey Arms Pass Gareth Writer-Davies Prodigal Natalie Ann Holborow Edefyn Ion Thomas An Irishwoman is Introduced to the Major Roads of Wales Angela Graham I Ferthyr Mererid Hopwood Apollo Over Merthyr Pat Edwards Lleiniau Llŷr Gwyn Lewis And in those days... Tracy Rhys The Crem Conway Emmett Ar yr A470 Gwenno Gwilym Pontypridd Museum Stephen Payne The Lamb Belle Roach Llawlyfr Mam i Pit-stops Cymru Lowri Williams Interweaving Christina Thatcher Hippopotamus Cambrensis David Mathews Dad Rhiannon Oliver Boreudaith Morgan Owen Cwlt yr A470 Simon Chandler Taith, Teithio – Iaith, Ieithio clare e. potter Mae’r Ffordd Glyn Edwards

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Mae Sian Northey yn awdur llawrydd ac mae bellach wedi ysgrifennu, cyfi eithu neu olygu dros 17 o lyfrau,yn amrywio o farddoniaeth i nofelau ar gyfer plant. Magwyd Sian yn Nhrawsfynydd ac mae bellach yn byw ym Mhenrhyndeudraeth, yng Ngwynedd. Mae ganddi Ddoethuriaeth mewn Ysgrifennu Creadigol o Ysgol y Gymraeg, Prifysgol Bangor. Mae Ness Owen yn fardd ac awdur sydd yn byw yn Ynys Môn. Mae’n ysgrifennu dramâu, barddoniaeth ddwyieithog a straeon yn ogystal â darlithio a ffermio. Cyhoeddwyd ei chasgliad o farddoniaeth, 'Mamiaith', gan Arachne Press yn 2019.

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Sian Northey is a freelance author, poet, translator and editor. Sian was brought up in Trawsfynydd, and now lives in Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd. As a (very!) mature student she gained a PhD in Creative Writing at the School of Welsh at Bangor University, the university where she’d done her first degree, in Zoology, decades earlier. Amongst other projects she is currently working on a collection of essays and doing background research for a play involving chapels who continue to hold services with only two or three in the congregation. She writes novels for adults and children, poetry, editing and translating for others and has had multiple Books Council of Wales 'Books of the Month'. Ness Owen lives on the island of Ynys Mon where she writes plays, poetry and stories in between lecturing and farming. Her work has appeared in various journals including Poetry Wales, Red Poets, I, S & T, The Fat Damsel, Culture Matters and in anthologies published by Three Drops Press, Here and Now project and Mother’s Milk Books and Arachne Press, who also published her bilingual first collection, Mamiaith.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Anghofiwch y lôn llai ei defnydd. Mae’r A470 yn un sydd wedi ei threulio a’i thrafaelio, o’r mwstwr i’r rhwystrau mawr a geir arni. Ceir teithiau hamddenol yn ogystal â rhai sy’n fater o raid i gyrraedd pen siwrnai. Fel darllenwyr, gallwn eistedd yn ôl yn hollol ddiofal gyda’r atgof o’r gwibdeithiau dirgel yna a drefnwyd slawer dydd heb wybod pen y daith. Pwy fyddai wedi meddwl y gallai heol mor chwedlonol, yr A470 fod yn destun sgwrs gan greu y fath fywiogrwydd , fel iddi ysbrydoli beirdd i ffri-wilio. Hwyrach y dylai’r cerddi hyn gyfnewid y meini gwyn ochr- y- ffordd fel y rhai a welir ar draws Cymru. Nawr dyna syniad ! Haedda’r gyfrol deithio ar hyd a lled yn y ddwy iaith ond ceir cant o leisiau yma. Rhyfeddod o flodeugerdd ac un hawdd -ei-chael fel cydymaith taith heb ei hail. Menna Elfyn

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Endorsements:Forget the road not taken ( Frost), this one, the A470, is indeed well-travelled: with verve, the odd swerve and a sudden emergency stop to catch one’s breath at such fine poetry. There are leisurely journeys as well as the full throttle of family in tow. As readers we are able to be in transit and yet carefree. It is almost akin to those ‘mystery bus trips’ once so popular, when you never knew where you would end up. Who would have thought that such a legendary road, the most ‘talked about’ in Welsh life, the A470, would capture so many vistas with such poetic vivacity, that it would entice so many poets to freewheel their imaginations? Perhaps these poems should be placed as poetry-marker-stones all across the breadth of Wales, akin to the milestones of days gone by. Now that’s a thought. It deserves to travel widely in both languages, but really it speaks in a hundred voices. What a marvel of an anthology, and a much needed travel companion. Menna Elfyn The poems in A470 evoke both the childish wonder of travel and the call of home that grows with age. In journeying along Wales’s main artery, you can feel the heady pull of language that gives the world meaning and gifts the poet’s place in it. This is a superb anthology for lovers of poetry and lovers of Wales. Kate North Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Cardiff Metropolitan University and former Chair of Literature Wales