Walking 17 INTRODUCTION 19 THE STRAIGHT PATH 25 Journey's beginning 26 Lenham 27 Lenham lambs unafraid 27 Holloway 28 Westwell to Eastwell 30 THE SOUTH EASTERN ARC 33 Wye 34 Why? 34 Jacob's ladder 34 Brabourne 35 Long Wood December 35 Brabourne Downs 38 Stowting 41 The Tiger 41 Postling 42 Sun games 43 Lower Postling 45 Postling and the lost camera 48 Postling, the lost camera, Conrad and The Heart of Darkness 52 Tolsford Hill and scarps 58 Showerless at Tolsford 58 Weather 61 Summerhouse Hill 64 Etchinghill Escarpment 65 Existential Etchinghill 65 Etchinghill summit 69 Etchinghill escape 70 Arpinge Escarpment 72 From Holywell to Arpinge heights 72 Nodding to the numinous 74 Dog's tree 76 Mandala me 77 Arpinge base: unhinged Arpinge 79 Seabrook stream's spring 82 Fog 83 Folkestone Downs 85 Peene Quarry 86 Keen for Peene in November 86 Cheriton Down 88 Balancing 88 Castle Hill 90 Sugar Loaf Hill 91 Sugar Loaf Hill and King Arthur 92 Blip on landscape 94 Holywell 95 Wingate Hill 96 Creteway Down, Dover Hill 97 The Warren 99 The Apron 101 Edge place 101 No broken hearts 102 Why does the Warren water move? 104 Trouble over 104 Tempest 105 Washed and weathered 107 Slithering pool 108 Sea saw sea 110 Dog days 111 Dog slant 112 Sure line 114 Sea snippets 115 Pinch and rise 116 Portal 117 Seafront son 119 Storm blasted 120 One evening 121 Harbour arm 123 Goodbye ball 124 Dover 126 Roll over to Dover 126 Beyond Dover; Kingsdown Beach 127 THE NORTH EASTERN ARC 129 Boughton Aluph 130 Splitting point 130 A round becomes whole 130 The West is the best 131 King's Wood 133 Reclining body 133 Toward Canterbury 135 Julieberrie 135 Bigbury Iron Age hillfort 135 The Stour Valley, West Canterbury 137 ELA VALLEYS 141 Elham Valley 142 Court at Denton, Elham East 142 Barham Down 143 Lydden Valley 145 Grass dunes on down Downs 145 Grass dunes 147 Cloud down 149 Dunes and desert, searingly hot 151 Man 152 Rainbow towards Lydden 154 Alkham Valley 155 An Alkham April 155 St Radigund's Abbey 156 St Radigund's continued 159 Church Hougham 162 Unicorns 162 West Hougham: huffing out 162 New paths 163 Farthing Common and West Wood 164 Our Father Who Art in Nature 164 Bluebell Woods 166 Pillars Woods, April 2017 166 March 2018 167 From Long Wood, near Brabourne 168 THE SAXON SHORELINE 171 Edge place I 172 Edge place II 173 Rough Roughs 175 Through the zoo 177 Ghosts 179 Un-straight-jacketed 180 CONCLUSION 183 BIBLIOGRAPHY 185
