The Road North
| Author | : Ken Cockburn |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2014-10-15 |
| ISBN-10 | : 184861358X |
| ISBN-13 | : 9781848613584 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (584 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Road North by : Ken Cockburn
Download or read book The Road North written by Ken Cockburn and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
