On Sunday 1 September Canterbury-based poets and readers will enact a ‘completion’ of the Canterbury Tales journey, walking the final (partly unfinished) leg of the pilgrimage, regaling each other with contemporary poetry, making merry and frolicking on the way. The jaunt will be from Faversham to Canterbury, ending up on a pub near Mercery Lane, where the Tales ‘ended up’ in a ‘completed’ version by a Christchurch monk. The idea’s not to relive Chaucer but to reinvigorate a sense of space and journey, and collectively move through conditions, achieving spiritual solidarity and linguistic clarity. Mead will be provided.
The party will set out from Faversham Station at 1300 hours. Walkers are invited to read their own and/or somebody else’s Contemporary Poetry. Current offerings include an adaptation of a Chaucer tale, an poetic history of Kentish revolt, a Canterbury tale by way of LA, and much more readings pencilled in, but more would be most welcome. The party will get to Canterbury sometime after 5 and will end peregrinations with a nut-brown ale or two.
The route is as follows: Faversham -> Staplestreet -> Boughton Street -> Dunkirk -> Bossenden Wood -> North Bishopden Wood -> Church Wood -> Upper Harbledown -> Harbledown -> St Dunstans -> Canterbury
ALL WELCOME!