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3 By the Gharbh Ghaoin
3 skyspace
3 sky-eye
7 Killin & Acharn, Falls of Acharn
8 Kurobane, Loch Insh (Basho’s station 8)
9 Monreith, Tom Pow’s Mendan
9 Monreith, Valerie Gillies’ Medan
10 Carbeth, Gerry Loose reads Basho
10 Carbeth, meop
12 Moness Burn
12 Birks o’ Aberfeldy (hinging-things)
13 Invergeldie, Glen Lednock
13 Oyster catchers (Sma’ Glen)
14 Saint Fillan's Hill, view
14 Margaret Bennett, Gradh geal mo chridh
14 translation (Dear love of my heart)
15 deer, Dunira
16 Ossians’ Hall, Hermitage Wood
16 Ossian’s Libation
16 Hermitage Wood (Thomas A. Clark, Douglas Lipton, Alec Finlay)
19 Munlochy, Valerie Gilies
19 Strathpeffer (whelk)
20 Dun Grugaig
20 the Grainne myth, Eddie Stiven
27 Kathleen Raine
28 Jupiter Woodland
29 Dan Lee, ORCA, Cantick Head
33 St Weems, Tom Shakespeare
33 St Weems, Tom Shakespeare & Basho
33 St Weems, Ms Seifu & Basho
34 apache!
35 Falls of Bruar
35 Linnet (?), Falls of Bruar
36 ‘3 Quatrains', Bai Juyi, tr. Brian Holton
43 Geoff's chat
43 Basho reading at ‘The Great Glen Airshow’, H.I.C.A., 2010
45 Maolios Caimbeul renga
45 Maolios Caimbeul, the well
46 Nick’s Viking tale
47 Fragment
47 Jerome Rothenberg
47 Alistair Peebles, Finlay’s House (on Rousay)
48 Loch Eilt
48 Loch Shiel
49 Bharpa Langais
49 willow warbler
51 Meg, Dun Scathaig
53 the hidden gardens, Margaret Bennett's sings ‘Gradh geal mo chridh’
53 the hidden gardens, Basho & Sora's introduction
53 the hidden gardens, Alec Finlay (1 - 11)
53 the hidden gardens, Morven Gregor (12-22)
53 the hidden gardens, Irfan Marchant (23-33)
53 the hidden gardens, Larry Butler (34-44)
53 the hidden gardens, Margaret Bennett (45-55)
53 the hidden gardens, Gerry Loose (56-66)
53 the hidden gardens, Colin Will (67-77)
53 the hidden gardens, Angus Reid (78-88)
53 the hidden gardens, Ken Cockburn (89-100)
53 the hidden gardens, Rewriting Basho's last station
53 the hidden gardens, Margaret Bennett's 'Grioal cridhe' (Glen Lyon's Lament)
53 the hidden gardens, Mr Tarahara's ‘Kojo no tsuki’ (ruined castle)
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ABOUT
the road north
(2010-11) is a book-length poem describing a journey through Scotland, composed by Alec Finlay & Ken Cockburn as they traveled through their homeland, guided by the Japanese poet Basho, whose
Oku no hosomichi
(Narrow Road to the Deep North) is one of the masterpieces of travel literature. Ken & Alec departed Edinburgh on 16 May 2010, the same date that Basho and his companion Sora departed Edo in 1689.
The journey was published as a blog – a collaborative audio & visual word-map – and realised as a book and poem-audio, describing the landscapes they visited and the people they met. For information about the book, visit the
Shearsman
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