The Road North de Ken Cockburn

The Road North: Collected Poems

Ken Cockburn

Alec Finlay

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2014

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.

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Alec Finlay was born in Scotland in 1966. He is an artist, poet and publisher. He now lives and works in the North East of England. In 2002 he became the first BALTIC artist in residence. Most recently he has worked as an artist in residence at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where he has been creating a series of art projects on themes connected with nature and contemporary culture - Avant-Garde English Landscape. He set up the Morning Star small press which publishes the Folios and the pocketbooks series. Recent books include Turning Toward Living (Platform Projects, 2004), Shared Writing (Platform Projects, 2005), Ludwig Wittgenstein: There Where You Are Not (Blackdog, 2006), Mesostic Herbarium (Platform Projects, 2004), Wind Blown Clouds (Morning Star, 2005), Be My Reader (Shearsman, 2012), and the pamphlet Question your Teaspoon (Calder Wood, 2012).