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Walking, Landscape and Environment with Dave Borthwick

We are delighted to have eco-poet and editor Dave Borthwick join us in April, exploring walking as a method of research and practice, and how walking has been applied by poets and prose writers to examine and depict the nature of place. Dave was one of the editors of the recently published collection of essays on Walking, Landscape and Environment (Routledge 2019).

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Walking, Landscape and Environment with Dave Borthwick

Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at walk · listen · create’s Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to have eco-poet and editor Dave Borthwick join us in April, exploring walking as a method of research and practice, and how walking has been applied by poets and


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flakkari

“Icelandic culture is infused with stories of travel. When names were needed for modern machines, the technology that enables our imaginations to travel, words were chosen that centred on the quality of roaming. Thus the neologism for laptop is fartölva, formed from the verb far, meaning to migrate, and tölva – migrating computer’; its companion, the external hard drive, is a flakkari. The latter word can also mean ‘wanderer’ or ‘vagrant’. In the end it’s the wanderers we rely on.” From Nancy Campbell’s “The Library of Ice”.

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