the road north is a word-map of Scotland, composed by Alec Finlay & Ken Cockburn as they travel through their homeland, guided by the Japanese poet Basho, whose Osu-no-Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North) is one of the masterpieces of travel literature. Ken and Alec left Edo (Edinburgh) on May 16, 2010 - the very same date that basho and his companion Sora departed in 1689 - and on their return, on May 16, 2011, they published 53 collaborative audio & visual poems describing the landscapes they had seen and the people they had met.
- ISBN10 184861358X
- ISBN13 9781848613584
- Publish Date 15 October 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Shearsman Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 136
- Language English