Walking the Coventry Ring Road with Lady Godiva

Walking the Coventry Ring Road with Lady Godiva is Cathy Galvin’s third sequence of poetry, following Black & Blue (2014) and Rough Translation (2016). In this sequence Godgifu (Lady Godiva) guides the poet and reader along the titular road, circling the medieval city boundaries through demolition and bomb sites, past graveyards and Epstein’s angel, over rivers and monasteries, in a personal, poetic, spiritual and psychogeographic exploration of the city in which the poet was born.

'Ring Road is a wonderful realisation of the poetry that is Coventry's past, present, and future: an archaeology and rediscovering of what it means to be a citizen of this fabled city.' - David Morley

'a poet of enormous subtlety and beauty' - Neil Gaiman

As well as a poet and journalist, Cathy has been a champion of other writers and writing, co-founding the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and founding and directing The Word Factory short story salon.

Walking the Coventry Ring Road has been illustrated by Kristy Campbell, printed on Mohawk Superfine papers and section sewn, with end papers from Fedrigoni.

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