I’ve written an article for The Literary Platform about walking as interdisciplinary R & D:

“One of the great things about a really great hike is it pushes you into the present; it’s so beautiful and so splendid, it’s so easy to get lost, that you’re brought entirely into the moment, like a really good game of tennis or chess.”

Ian McEwan

Writers and poets generally like walking – wandering lonely as a cloud, walking out one evening down Bristol Street, taking the path less travelled by, travelling with a donkey or a dog or a fridge. Admittedly it’s mainly the past time of male writers of a certain age (think Robert Macfarlane up to Ian McEwan by way of Will Self). But for the rest of you (I’m a man of a certain age too) walking could also be a useful and productive exercise – even in a world full of such dangerously sedentary delights as Youtube, HDTV and Xboxes…

Now read on… http://www.theliteraryplatform.com/2013/01/walking-for-inspiration/