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PUBLISHER: SilverWood Books Ltd

FORMAT: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781800422377

RRP: £13.99

PAGES: 66

PUBLICATION DATE:
February 23, 2023

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The Weights We Carry: Poems from a solo bike-packing journey around the Scottish Highlands and the Orkney Islands

C.D. Seventeen

I want to leave this world behind, jump on a bike, go on a journey without others, dive deep into the self, and let the weight of my human identity dissolve into the wind.In the wilderness, I see my emotions floating in silence, and I repaint them with my own colour. I hear the purpose of my life defined by others washed away in the rivers, and I rewrite them with my own melody.I taste the bitterness of my history while I bury my sorrows under the pink-coloured beach on a remote island. My past and future end in the pouring rain while I merge my soul with the spirit of the sky creatures. Then I know what it means to be free…

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C.D. Seventeen

‘The Weights We Carry’ is the first poetry collection from C.D. Seventeen, documenting her solo bike-packing adventure around the Scottish highland and Orkney Islands. A trip with a total distance of 658 miles (1058.95 kilometers) and a duration of forty-six days, with mostly wild camping.C.D. Seventeen is originally from China. She moved to the UK at the age of 17 on her own to study psychology.She was born in a place called “the south of clouds” (Yunnan province of China), an area with drastic diversity of landscape, religion, culture, music, and arts. “Whoever can speak is a singer, whoever can walk is a dancer” is a famous saying in the country, which describes the artistic Yunnan people. C.D. Seventeen is not an exception. Apart from writing poems, she is also a techno music artist, DJ, and painter.For more of her work please visit cyberdoll17.com.