Exiled on an island
I have been reading On this Holy Island - A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain by award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith, who will be our guest on 16 July at our next Walking Writers' Salon. I find it rather strange to be reading about Britain, when I have been staying in a verdant flower garden on the sub-tropical island of Madeira. It is not the first time, I have muddled myself, as only back in April while in Lisbon, I was reading The Lost Paths - A History of How we Walk from Here to There by Jack Cornish - another thoroughly British book about the history of England's rights of way. Luckily, Oliver, who has travelled the world writing articles for major newspapers and outdoor journals, has reassured me that reading a book about our homeland when abroad, is actually rather reassuring and we can imagine ourselves in exile.....
Pilgrimage is becoming particularly secular these days, and Oliver writes about a pilgrimage to a remote Scottish pub - interestingly enough, mentioned by Alex Roddie an earlier Walking Writer guest - as well as to a football stadium, very timely as half of Europe appear to be in pubs watching football.
Oliver's book has made me think hard about how different authors approach writing about similar subjects, not least how we walkers, perceive the landscapes through which we walk. He clambers along part of the Ridgeway, across the Wiltshire Downs, for which Gail Simmons wrote about too, and he follows in the footsteps of Chaucer and visits Walsingham in Norfolk, that were both paths and destinations for Sonia Overall. So I think it is about time, we seek out writers writing about places other than the British Isles, and this is where you come in. We now have a facility on the walk · listen · create website by which you can suggest a book - it is one of many new features* that my colleague Babak has created, prompted by our involvement in the part EU-funded Walking Arts and Local Communities (WALC) project, of which we play a key part, providing the online archive and submission ecosystem.
One of our partners, Clara Gari from Nau Côclea in Catalonia is hosting the next WALC cafe, on Monday 1 July - not our usual cafe day, nor at our usual time, and it is a precursor for the Walking Art and Relational Geographies Conference that Clara has skilfully put together. All this means that some of the audience will be in the same room as the the cafe guests, Igor Binsbergen and Laroche aka Luce Choules, and should you not be able to join us in person, you will nevertheless be able to join us online.
As many of you will know I am a big fan of radio (and dare I mention podcasting), and just this morning I Iistened to World Heavyweight Boxing champion Anthony Joshua as he was castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. He mentioned the importance of keeping your family close and making time to catch up, on a walk.
*another feature, is our video archive, from where you can find recordings of each of the Walking Writers' Salons mentioned in this newsletter
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