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Inhabiting a landscape, walking a landscape, writing a place and
time For Linda Cracknell, exposure to wind, rock, mist, and salt
water is integral to her writing process. She follows Susan
Sontag’s advice to “Love words, agonise over sentences, and pay
attention to the world,” observing and writing her landscapes
from the particulars of each moment. In this varied essay
collection, Linda backpacks on a small island that is connected to
the mainland only at low tide. In winter snow, she hikes the wooded
hillside close to her home, a place she is intimately familiar with
in all seasons. And she retraces over three days the steps of a
trek made by her parents seven decades earlier. She explores her
inspirations, in nature and from other artists and their work, and
she offers thoughtful writing prompts. Reading this
collection will take you to new places, open your eyes to the
world, and suggest ways to take note and make notes as you go—to
inspire your own attentive looking, journaling, and writing
practice.
The paperback edition of The Other Side of Stone, a novella which
centres around a Perthshire woollen mill, revisiting it over three
centuries through characters as diverse as a 19th century
stonemason and modern-day architect. The primary timeline follows
Catharine, a cotton spinner from Paisley and fierce suffragette,
who has followed her husband home to the village where he's taken
on a job at the local mill. Both militant members of the Labour
Movement, it is through her developing connection to the mill that
the intricate interweaving of the other stories is revealed. While
fictional, the novella draws on many real histories of local mills,
and offers a fascinating insight into the long-term impact of
industrialisation upon rural Scotland, as well as the struggle for
women's rights.
'Luminous' The Times 'Beautiful' Caught by the River Bringing
together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape,
this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming,
from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back
gardens, through prose, poetry and photography. Edited and
introduced by Kathleen Jamie, and with contributions from Amy
Liptrot, Jim Crumley, Chitra Ramaswamy, Malachy Tallack, Amanda
Thomson and many more, Antlers of Water urges us to renegotiate our
relationship with the more-than-human world, in writing which is by
turns celebratory, radical and political.
Although mostly concealed, our bedrock geology profoundly
determines what we see around us - not just our landforms, but the
built environment too, from Aberdeen, often called the "granite
city" to Bath, constructed from honey-coloured limestone- rocks
shape the world around us. In Cornerstones, some of Britain's
leading landscape and nature writers consider their relationship
with the ground beneath their feet. Distinguished by a strong sense
of place and close observation, these essays take the reader out
into the landscape and convey the tactile heft, grain and rub of
the rock, showing how it shapes our familiar landscapes. Adapted
from the successful BBC Radio Three series, Cornerstones explores
how different rock types give rise to their own distinct flora and
fauna, and even affect the food we eat.
Short Circuit fills a real gap in the text book market. Written by
24 prizewinning writers and teachers of writing, this book is
intensely practical. Each expert discusses necessary craft issues:
their own writing processes, sharing tried and tested writing
exercises and lists of published work they find inspirational.
Endorsed by The National Association of Writers in Education, it
became recommended or required reading for Creative Writing courses
in the UK and beyond, including Goldsmiths, The University of Kent
at Canterbury, Glasgow University, John Cabot University in Rome,
Stockholm University in Sweden, Sussex University, Brighton
University, Edge Hill University, Chichester University, The
National University of Ireland in Galway, and University Campus
Suffolk, at Ipswich.
'The Searching Glance' is the long-awaited second collection from
one of Scotland's leading short story writers. The worlds inhabited
by the characters in these stories are diverse - a hill walker is
unknowingly watched over as he lies dying on a Highland hill; a
Glasgow party-goer searches years later for a woman who may have
mistaken him for a monster; a mysterious prize is sought in the
perpetual daylight of midsummer Orkney. Whether it is in a suburban
garden or on the stark skyline of a Borders hill, the landscape and
seasonal extremes provoke and unsettle.Linda Cracknell's stories
are multi-layered and brooding with longing and loss, allowing the
reader a 'searching glance' at characters' lives. With touches of
the surreal and hard strokes of reality, these stories will linger
in the mind.
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