Join poet and author Peter Finch for a celebration of Cardiff’s remarkable borderlands
Peter Finch
Join poet and author Peter Finch for a celebration of Cardiff’s remarkable borderlands
Cardiff Civic Society presents Peter Finch at the Drawing Room, Insole Court, Fairwater Road, Cardiff, CF5 2LN
7pm, Monday, January 23, 2023
FREE (suggested donation £5.00)
Confined by lockdown restrictions, much-loved Cardiff chronicler, Peter Finch, decided to walk the little explored borders of the city.
In his new book Edging the City, he shares the insights and discoveries he made along the way.
The Cardiff border rarely appears on maps. The city no longer has walls (like York or Chester), or a modern transport périphérique like London’s M25. Instead, its boundary travels across fields, along motorways, up rivers, through forests, over rail tracks and along miles of intertidal mudflats following the edge of the Severn.
Created for walkers and armchair travellers alike, Edging the City explores why and where borders exist, their purposes, their love of water courses. It discusses other cities with walkable borders including York, Chester, London, Paris, Bruges and Seoul. It considers legal and geopolitical reasons for borders and what happens when politics crosses boundaries.
As always, Finch is lively, funny, inquisitive, engaging – characteristics he brings to his charismatic live shows.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase, price £9.99
Edging the City book cover