"On 29 July 2004, to mark the ninth anniversary of my
Dad's
death, I
walked eighteen
miles as the crow flies from the
town of Market Harborogh in Leicestershire to the
village of Cottesmore in Linconshire. At the
end of the
journey I
performed a
ritual in a
field. I have nothing to say about that. Certain things ought to be kept
secret."
Carl Lavery, "Mourning Walk" in
Walking, Writing & Performance: Autobiographical Texts by Deirdre Heddon, Carl Lavery and Phil Smith,
Roberta Mock ed., Bristol, UK: intellect, 2009, page 28.
