Wood Mountain Walk: Afterthoughts on a Pilgrimage for Andrew Suknaski

Ken Wilson’s ‘Wood Mountain Walk: Afterthoughts on a Pilgrimage for Andrew Suknaski’ reflects on a 250-kilometre walking pilgrimage made in honour of the late Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski. Wilson’s autoethnographic essay considers the possibilities and challenges of walking as a way to engage with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Ken
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Technological University Dublin 2019
Subjects:
pilgrimage
walking as art
Saskatchewan
Andrew Suknaski
Wood Mountain Poems
Nan Shepard
The Living Mountain
Robert Macfarlane
The Wild Places
Trevor Herriot
Richard Long
poetry
Prairies
Western Canada
cultural appropriation
Indigeneity
First Nations
aboriginal
Settler
creative nonfiction
travelogue
journal
Tourism and Travel
Canada
Herriot
Online Access:https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp/vol7/iss1/13
https://doi.org/10.21427/czey-xw12
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/context/ijrtp/article/1281/viewcontent/n__IJRTP_Vol_7_i__Wilson.pdf
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Summary:Ken Wilson’s ‘Wood Mountain Walk: Afterthoughts on a Pilgrimage for Andrew Suknaski’ reflects on a 250-kilometre walking pilgrimage made in honour of the late Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski. Wilson’s autoethnographic essay considers the possibilities and challenges of walking as a way to engage with land and community; Suknaski’s book Wood Mountain Poems and the issue of cultural appropriation; what it is like to walk in a sparsely populated and arid agricultural province where trespassing laws confine walkers to roads; and walking as both pilgrimage and artistic practice.

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