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The Road North

Alec Finlay author Ken Cockburn author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Shearsman Books

Published:15th Oct '14

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The Road North cover

the road north is a word-map of Scotland, composed by Alec Finlay & Ken Cockburn as they travel through their homeland, guided by the Japanese poet Basho, whose Osu-no-Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North) is one of the masterpieces of travel literature. Ken and Alec left Edo (Edinburgh) on May 16, 2010 - the very same date that basho and his companion Sora departed in 1689 - and on their return, on May 16, 2011, they published 53 collaborative audio & visual poems describing the landscapes they had seen and the people they had met.

ISBN: 9781848613584

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm

Weight: 183g

136 pages