THE MARCHES
This is the third in a series of lithographs by Alan Powers showing the Welsh borders, accompanied by sonnets from a series by Peter Levi.
MONTGOMERY is a planned town of the 13th century, below a
Wooded castle crag. Broad Street is lined with Georgian and .kegertcy houses with original shopfronts. The Town Hall was built In 1748, with open arcades, but the upper floor with its broad Italianate eaves betrays its reconstruction in 1828. The clock tower was completed in 192L but the effect is as harmonious as the mixture of styles throughout the town.
A portfolio edition of Alan Powers's eight original lithographs for The Marches, accompanied by Peter Levi's poems, is being published by Merivale Editions, 14 tvlerivale Road, London SW15 (01-785 9034).
Montgomery
The season passes and the bone is white, lives on as architecture, a new age, the spirit is consumed, painted up bright, a town in its beauty like a village: the simple rows of buildings swim in light: wisdom was born, blood thrived here and the sage Herbert of Cherbury took his swan-flight above these roofs, and the fresh-smelling page that seven muses had made smooth to invite George Herbert opened in his pupillage: sons of one mother, whose tongue told the height of heaven and made milder heaven's rage: small market town whose pride might only be the old luxuriance of privacy.
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