Marvellous series on Radio Three's 'The Essay' this week in which Andrew Motion explores the relationship between walking and writing through a number of poems.
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In 2007, I started writing about journeys in which I followed previous walkers: drovers, writers, servants bearing laundry, my own father, among others. I'm fascinated by the paths and marks they've left behind them, both in the land and in memory. Walking is both a tool and a subject in my own writing; writing a way of being truly alive as I walk, and reliving each journey in words.
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- Find out about Linda's best foot books inpsired by walking here
- 'The Heart in our Soles' - a barefoot walk through a Kenyan village published in Algebra
- Linda's website (you can buy books here)
- How to order 'Cleave' in which Linda's walk-essay 'Cailliche' is anthologised
- the dangers of the afternoon stroll
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- Linda Cracknell
- I'm a writer of fiction, creative non-fiction and radio drama. Recent books include a novel, Call of the Undertow, and non-fiction Doubling Back: ten paths trodden in memory. Both are grounded in particular landscapes - a big interest of mine. I teach and facilitate creative writing in a variety of settings at home and abroad. From July 2012- June 2016 I was writer in residence with the Sick Kids Friends Foundation in Edinburgh collaborating with illustrator Cate James - see All Write. I am currently writer-in-residence at George Watson's College - see THE DOOR.
2 comments:
Thanks for the reference to this essay. I enjoyed it immensely.
George, don't miss the other four in the series - all on at same time this week. Linda
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