Join us for the Spring Equinox and a book of poems and stories about getting there - on foot.
7pm.
Byways is a gazetteer of the private places and the gaps in the map - the very best places of all. Armchair travel has never been so seductive.
Mike Parker, author of Map Addict
Arachne Press follow up their impactful A470-themed collection with another expertly-curated anthology of poems and short prose dedicated to journeys. The writers in Byways find lost places, see the familiar in new ways, and recover personal or cultural memories through their imaginative wanderings. We’re taken us to edgelands, ridgeways, boundaries, forgotten paths; we travel with the writers into the past and from the material to the spirit world. There’s something intensely moving about these poetic journeys which focus on the spirit of place and the deep, barely-realised connections we have with our landscapes and people.
Matthew MC Smith, Black Bough Poetry and author of The Keeper of Aeons
Join us as we explore the urban shortcuts, well-trodden meanders, ancient pathways, hillside and field paths. The public and the secret ways that take us away from the crowds and out of our vehicles. Mainly in English but including a handful of poems in Welsh (with translation), join us off the beaten track.
Arachne Press has a track record (pun intended) of publishing what academics call psychogeography, but we call well-routed. We also have history with climate concern. We combine the two here, offering drama and solace from experiencing the world at the slow pace of a walk, whether the short cut to the chippy, or an all day hike in the hills.