Calton, hazel grove
East Campbell St
clematis, ivy
Esther Woolfson: Field Notes From a Hidden City
buddleia through concrete
a soft border to explore
around each edge
less tame, less savage
Log Cabins Ladies Fashions
Jesus & Mary Chain memories
The Glasgow Doge
less tame, less savage
around the edges of everything
was something less tame, less savage
Kent Street
Barras starlings
Nathaniel Johnson: Unseen City
neon gecko
dark crow
we used to crunch
on the whelk shells
like it was a beach
Maurice Sendak: The Wild Things
whitebeam?
Greendyke Street
‘Depot Wood’
birch, bramble, rowan, ash
‘Buddleia Bog’
white cabbage patch
swallow
Adam Nicolson: The Seabird’s Cry
mussel shells (seagull’s feast)
Glasgow Green
Richard Mabey: Street Flowers
magpie, starling, herring gull
pigeon in alder
hoppy smell
the bones of a whale
Humane Society
the wee wild bit
‘Bees Brow’
St Andrews Bridge, River Clyde
suicide by drowning
lifeboat
‘Lost Hopes Bridge’
John Craig & Katie Smith: Glasgow, 40 Town and Country Walks
University Boat House
the power of the river
fenced by water
rowers stay beneath the weir
but lads still scramble down and dip their toes
Thomas A. Clark: The 100,000 Places
Henry saw an otter under Jamaica St Bridge
King’s Drive Gate
mark where the park was enclosed
and lost its commons
treebirdfishbell
King’s Bridge & King’s Drive
‘Dandelion Daunder’
‘Piss-the-Bed Verge’
‘The Yellow-Green Road’
‘The Dandelion Stretch’
Greenhead St.
a Mancunian Bee in Glasgow
Arcadian carved skep
Arcadia is not Utopia
‘Windowed Wilding Garden’
the crack addict: buddleia, rules OK on THE N ON E E
the book, the boy and the fasces
J.H. Dickson: Wild Plants of Glasgow
Arcadia Street leading to Silver Grove
‘Copper Beech Row’
not gorse but berberis
a crow comes and goes
7 starlings
Canning Street
Green Street
(near Tobago Street)
bird boxes
‘Ragworts School’
straight lined fences and buildings
forged by benevolent institutionsevery sill of the façade lodged with ragwort
the old school
wanted for a community centre
brought for flats
because we had clipboards
they thought we might be buying
‘Mill School’
Mike Davis: Dead Cities
a bright walk for a dark book
crossing Millroad St
any relation to the Molindar?
a patch of orange in-between
expanses of green
Gallowgate
‘Kite Green’
unused ‘waste’ spaces for allotmnets
urban ambling ends
the text is a collaborative composition by everyone who took part on the walk, derived from conversations, readings and maps, and collaged by Alec Finlay
photographs: Kate McAllan
The Walking Library (Dee Heddon & Misha Myers)
Supported by Festival 2018 and the University of Glasgow
