a calendar of silent walks at twenty-four homes and estates in the care of the National Trust, across England & Wales; held in remembrance of all those aff ected by conflict, to mark the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.
guided by Hamish Henderson’s poem ‘End of a Campaign’, which bears witness to ‘our own’ and ‘the others’, a pair of representative poems will be read, and some poppy seeds scattered, at each walk.
Alec Finlay in collaboration with Ken Cockburn, Heather H. Yeung, and Luke Allan.
June–September, 2014
Commissioned by National Trust Supported by Arts Council England.
