
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.
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.
