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Bee Lilyjones's avatar

Yasmin, I was thinking about land art and other forms of visual art as being about place too…. There’s a book I have in mind but can’t remember the name of it, I have it somewhere. Also, I love Thomas A. Clark’s poetry about place (online at the Scottish Poetry Lubrary,) Ian Hamilton Finlay et al. Oh, and Hamish Fulton’s piece: Rock Fall Echo Dust. Wow. X

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Ronald Turnbull's avatar

I write about walking (and walk about writing) for a living, including hiking guidebooks. I also write about "walking writing" on the UKhillwalking website... Among the great walking writers I'd count John Muir, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nan Shepherd. Also Poet Lauriate Simon Armitage 'Walking Home'. Robert Louis Stevenson 'Travels with a Donkey'. It's on record that both Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote while walking: Wordsworth strolling on a smooth lawn, but Coleridge while struggling up the wooded coombs of the Quantocks.

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