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Meet Morag, author of The Feminist Art of Walking
Here’s an invitation that we know you won’t be able to refuse: Morag Rose offers a huge thank you to everyone who has helped make The Feminist Art of Walking. Tickets are now available for all dates on her book publicity tour – your chance to meet Morag in person*: Juno Books, Sheffield Saturday 18th
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Walking Alone and Together
Walking Alone and Together made use of sounds (including vocalizations and various languages) and collaborative guided walking to traverse an unfamiliar outdoor terrain, Working in pairs, small groups and then one large group, participants worked creatively to make their way across the hilly meadow outside Gabrovo.
Hand-in-Hand: the 2024 writing competition long list
Hand-in-hand immediately brings to mind an image of two people, young or old walking together side-by-side. We’ve borrowed the title from a story written by Australian Annette Lyons, one of 27 poems and stories, long listed in our annual Write about Walking writing competition, that this year had the theme of “Walking together”. Intriguingly, Annette
• Enjoying time and places, walking is an escape, a snub to modernity. It is a shortcut in the frantic pace of our lives, a good way to take a step back and sharpen your senses. Walking means thinking outside the box.
David Le Breton, sociologist and anthropologist of the body, has taken to the fields along well-trodden paths. In this literary stroll that invites us to stretch our legs, he mixes Pierre Sansot and Patrick Leigh Fermor in the pages, he brings Bashô and Stevenson into dialogue without concern for historical accuracy. It is simply a matter of walking together and exchanging impressions as if we were sitting around a table in a roadside inn in the evening, when fatigue and wine loosen our tongues.
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