{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-walking","title":"Ten Poems about Walking","description":"There seems to be a natural connection between walking and poetry. For William Wordsworth, the regular rhythm of walking was a stimulus to writing, and he said that “nine-tenths of my verses have been poured out in the open air.”\n\nThis beautiful mini-anthology contains William Wordsworth’s heart-stopping ‘Old Man Travelling’ alongside contemporary poems that capture the delights of a walk with a dear friend and of walking in solitude. There’s a poem about setting off through city streets to find a river and a heron, and another featuring a surprising encounter on the top of Helvellyn.\n\nOne by one then as a whole, these poems remind us that being on foot is one of the best ways of experiencing the world:\n\n“Sole self I bedded down close as I could\nTo listen: lapping, birdlife homing, settling …”\n\nfrom ‘Lake’ by David Constantine\n\nSasha Dugdale is an award-winning poet and translator – and a keen walker.\n\nPoems by Matthew Clegg, David Constantine, Sasha Dugdale, Choman Hardi, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Stephanie Norg","brand":"Candlestick Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58013734175107,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0797\/1438\/6230\/files\/9cfabde774ed03c14fbce8fe0f751a7c9fab3865558721a121113b88f33e6d80.jpg?v=1778368863","url":"https:\/\/floreannspantry.myshopify.com\/products\/ten-poems-about-walking","provider":"Flore@Annspantry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}