Four Points Fourteen Lines

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Travel. In January of 2015, school teacher Tony Chan gave up his job and embarked on a 78-day, 1,400 -mile solo-trek across the four extreme points of mainland Britain, writing a sonnet on each day of the journey from Dunnet Head to Ardnamurchan Point and from Lowestoft Ness to Lizard Point. These sonnets—raw and unedited after their composition—serve as a travelogue in the spirit of Bill Bryson as Chan journeys through the mundane, the ethereal, and the points between.