To begin the journey, we congregate almost four hundred years after Jonson. In front of the Palace walls, a set of variations in muted ochre, the orange pantile roof catches weak strands of sunlight on this September morning …
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Tales for Travellers and Travellers Tales … walking in the footsteps of Ben Jonson
It was a delight to be part of this wonderful project where we took Ben Jonson out for a walk in September.
Rebecca Crowther has documented the activities of all who took part in a new website which records our nine mile social walk from Culross to Dunfermline. Here you’ll find some background to the project, photographs, a short video, sound recordings of our interactive stops along the way and our own contribution from Murdo Eason.
Some extracts below:
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In a quiet place
I watch the sky
fall to earth.
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A few leaves
cast adrift, circle
as clouds and trees
slip silently below
the skin of water
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The sock & coulter symbol of the plough. A farmer’s life, turning soil, slowly returning to the land
You can find it all here:
Tales for Travellers and Travellers Tales … walking in the footsteps of Ben Jonson
Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea 