Description
A beautiful mini-anthology to celebrate the natural connection between walking and poetry.
For Wordsworth, the regular rhythm of walking was a stimulus to writing, and he said that “nine-tenths of my verses have been poured out in the open air.” His heart-stopping ‘Old Man Travelling’ is included alongside contemporary poems which remind us that being on foot is one of the best ways of experiencing the world
Sasha Dugdale is an award-winning poet and translator – and a keen walker. Collection include poems by Matthew Clegg, David Constantine, Sasha Dugdale, Choman Hardi, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Stephanie Norgate, MR Peacocke, Stephen Watts, William Wordsworth and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch.