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Scotland Outdoors

The Poetry Path at Corbenic Camphill Community in Perthshire

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen visits the poetry path at Corbenic with its founder Jon Plunkett

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0:49.4

So the shout stone is it's come to be known.

0:51.8

It's from a poem by Jim Caruth.

0:57.0

Really, it's set the tone for the whole path. And I think given given the nature of what Carbanic is, a place for people with learn disabilities to live,

0:59.0

this felt a very appropriate one to start the path with.

1:07.0

Today I stand on a field and shout.

1:12.6

It's good to stand on a field and shout. It's good to stand in a field and shout.

1:14.6

To stand somewhere you can call your own.

1:19.6

Somewhere you can find a place, somewhere you can find a space,

1:22.6

somewhere you can call home and shout.

1:39.3

The words of poet Jim Caruth carved into a stone at the Kerbenic Camp Hill community in rural Pershire.

1:41.1

Kerbenik offers residential care for over 40 adults with learning disabilities as part of the global camp hill movement.

1:48.0

It is a beautiful, really tranquil setting in amongst the hills, where residents take part in all sorts of creative and practical projects, including art and poetry.

1:59.0

I'm Mark Stephen, and in this edition of Scotland Outdoors,

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I visit Kerbenik and take a wander around the public poetry path

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