Bewick walks to Scotland

And so our trio of related posts is complete with the title of Sally Evans' study on Thomas Bewick based on his stravaig of 1776.

The book is available for a mere £7 published by Arrowhead Press in 2004. I have a copy and it is well worth it.

More here http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/bewick.html and more on Sally herself and her latest ebook Poetic adventures in Scotland here http://desktopsallye.com/.

I hope the road will follow this river's

wooded otter pools.

 (from Sally Evans' Bewick poem Langham)

Lit & Phil

This looks a dead cool place - as mentioned in our previous post - and I immediately want to visit it.

Sadly I am speaking at a conference in Manchester (oh Manchester, so much to answer for) on Thursday and cannot make it. But I am imagine that on my next pilgrimage to Ponteland and Newcastle this ancient subscription library will be high on my list. Not least because the engraver Thomas Bewick - the poetic subject of Poetry Scotland editor Sally Evans - was once a member.

More on the glorious book matrix here http://www.litandphil.org.uk/index.shtml