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Ken Cockburn

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Heriot Toun Studio
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Stonypath, Little Sparta
Outlandia
London Fieldworks 

 
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Meg Bateman
Maoilios Caimbeul
Angus Dunn

Linda France
Jen Hadfield

Kevin Henderson
Gerry Loose
Alistair Peebles
Ian Stephen
Jayne Wilding
Colin Will

Morven Gregor
Jen Hadfield
Pat Law
Peter Manson
Tomohiko Ogawa
Ian Stephen

Jerome Rothenberg
Valerie Gilles
Anne Briggs
Alasdair Roberts
Lucy Farrell & Jonny Kearney
Tom Lubbock
Alexander & Susan Maris
Margaret Bennett
Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson
Malcolm Fraser architects
Stills
Tracey Warr 


Oku-no-Hosomichi, Back Roads to Far Towns

Translated by Cid Corman
Published by White Pine


















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  • ▼  2012 (2)
    • ▼  January (2)
      • (54) Sora’s Epilogue
      • (32) Huntly
  • ►  2011 (12)
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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 website. You can download the full poem-audio for free on iTunes.

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