Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), b. #OTD, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN have gained attention—but she was also an important modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance 🎂 🧵 1/8 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/quie... - ThreadSky

asls.org.uk • 32 days ago

Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), b. #OTD, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN have gained attention—but she was also an important modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/quiet-pioneer-the-novels-of-nan-shepherd-1893-1981/

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asls.org.uk•32 days ago

Currently available on BBC Sounds – @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social celebrates Nan Shepherd’s intrepid literary spirit by embarking on an autumnal poetic pilgrimage right into the heart of her favourite wild places in the Cairngorms
2/8
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mfndd

asls.org.uk•32 days ago

“In Shepherd’s writing … true learning—like hill-walking—is arduous. True knowledge of the mountains is only possible through the suffering of the body brought on through the relentless motion of the feet.”

– @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social on Shepherd’s nature poetics
3/8
https://lithub.com/on-the-nature-poetics-of-the-great-nan-shepherd-bard-of-the-highlands/

asls.org.uk•32 days ago

Loch A’an, Loch A’an, hoo deep ye lie!
Tell nane yer depth and nane shall I.
Bricht though yer deepmaist pit may be,
Ye’ll haunt me till the day I dee.
Bricht, an’ bricht, an’ bricht as air,
Ye’ll haunt me noo for evermair.

—Nan Shepherd, “Loch Avon”
4/8
https://www.flickr.com/photos/black_friction/5845274155

asls.org.uk•32 days ago

“At a time of global ecological crisis … her intuitive understanding of the landscape and the rhythms of nature is both a clarion call and a balm for the soul.”

— @scottlyall.bsky.social on THE LIVING MOUNTAIN
5/8
https://theconversation.com/the-living-mountain-in-an-age-of-ecological-crisis-nan-shepherds-nature-writing-is-more-relevant-than-ever-119794

asls.org.uk•32 days ago

But in the climbing ecstasy of thought,
Ere consummation, ere the final peak,
Come hours like this…

—Nan Shepherd, “Summit of Coire Etchachan”
published in WANDERERS: A History of Women Walking, by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social
6/8
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/summit-corrie-etchachan/

asls.org.uk•32 days ago

“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain”

Jo Milne at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social celebrates Nan Shepherd’s achievements as a writer of prose & poetry, an editor, & an inspiring lecturer & traveller who loved literature & landscape
7/8
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/stories/nanshepherd/index.html

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