The latest episode of The Camino Podcast focuses on less common approaches to the pilgrimage in literature:
Episode 40 – The Camino in Novel and Poem: We are living in a boom time for Camino-related books, with new publications hitting the virtual shelves seemingly every week. And yet, these are overwhelming memoir or historical-cultural in approach; to this point, relatively few works have explored the pilgrimage through the lens of fiction or poetry. Gradually, though, we are starting to see authors dip into those realms, and this episode features two such writers. Up first is Ashlee Cowles, the American author of the YA-novel Beneath Wandering Stars, which centers on two young pilgrims on the Camino. She is followed by David McLoghlin, an Irish poet whose collection of poems on life in 1993 Santiago de Compostela, Santiago Sketches, is featured throughout the episode.
Check out the additional links below for more information on this episode:
- You can find Ashlee Cowles here; her novel set on the Camino, Beneath Wandering Stars, is available here
- Dave highlighted David Lodge’s Therapy as another novel in which the Camino makes an important appearance. You can find it here; I also recommend reading about Lodge’s personal history of pilgrimage here
- Click here for David McLoghlin’s home page. You can find his collection, Santiago Sketches, here
- Another prominent camino-related poet to check out is David Whyte
