Pilgrim Squints

A philosophical and poetic meditation on relation and movement through time and space as a father and daughter duo walk across Spain on the Camino de Santiago.

‘It’s the cliché of the Camino – as so often heard on the trail and read in the literature – that one sets out on this journey in order to answer that last question. ‘To find oneself’ –. It runs something like this: If, in your lovely home, you can’t really know or trust, or gauge or depend on your own feelings, opinions or motives as given, then take your feet down from your living room pouffe, set them on something solid, place one foot in front of the other on the path and keep doing that until you have a journeyful of down-to-earth at your back. It is in such a long-endured and newly trodden and accumulated earthen sensibility that your hope will be built.’

ISBN 978-1-80065-240-0

By Johnny Rodger

Published by Oystercatcher Books