{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-walking","title":"Ten Poems About Walking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCandlestick Press is a small, independent press publishing beautiful ‘Instead of a card’ poetry pamphlets. Based in Nottingham in the UK, we’ve been making our mini-anthologies since 2008 and have now sold over 915,000 titles – which means that we’ve shared over nine million poems with our readers all over the world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere seems to be a natural connection between walking and poetry. For\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWilliam Wordsworth,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethe 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful mini-anthology contains\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWilliam Wordsworth’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eheart-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. One by one then as a whole, these poems remind us that being on foot is one of the best ways of experiencing the world:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Sole self I bedded down close as I could\u003cbr\u003eTo listen: lapping, birdlife homing, settling …”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem class=\"is-italic\"\u003efrom ‘Lake’ by David Constantine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSasha Dugdale\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an award-winning poet and translator – and a keen walker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOur pamphlets are supplied with an envelope for posting, a bookmark for a special message and an ‘Instead of a card’ sticker to seal the back of the envelope for a lovely finishing touch.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 20 printed pages\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Candlestick Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47216980426984,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/ten-poems-about-walking-poetry-pamphlet-front-cover.jpg?v=1743983385","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/ten-poems-about-walking","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}