Lancaster Visitor Information Centre is inviting you to take a poetic walk around Lancaster with Litfest’s Walking in Circles.
Walking in Circles is a collection of three poetic walking tours which explore the history and people of the city. The tours were commissioned by Litfest’s publishing imprint Flax to accompany a specially designed map to introduce visitors and residents to stories, real and imagined, of the city.
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| Elizabeth Burns |
They’ve been written by local poets Elizabeth Burns and Rebecca Irvine Bilkau and Cumbrian resident Martyn Halsall.
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| Rebecca Irvine Bilkau |
“I hope the tours will introduce visitors and inhabitants to a different side of Lancaster”to some of our wonderfully talented local poets,” says Sarah Hymas of Litfest, and to encourage us all to see familiar buildings in a new light.”
All walks start at the The Storey, where you can pick up a map of all three routes from the visitor information centre at a price of just £1. You can also borrow an MP3 player from the centre with recordings of the poems to listen to as you go (for a refundable deposit of £10).
Walking times range from half an hour to an hour and a half.
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| Martyn Halsall |
• Lancaster Visitor Information Centre at the Storey Creative Industries Centre, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster is open Monday – Saturday from 9.30am – 5pm.
• Maps and audio of the poems are also available to download from the Flax029 page of the Litfest website – www.litfest.org