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Re: 'The Living Mountain'
Jan 09, 2015, 08:59
drewbhoy wrote:
tjj wrote:
thelonious wrote:
Should be up online later tonight. Nice programme about a great book :)

I like this
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/hill-burns


A beautiful poem - thank you. I think you will like the chapter in Robert Macfarlane's book. I love these sentences about Nan Shepherd's writing
"... the exploratory movement out into the wild landscape simultaneous with the confirming movement back into the self - lends her poems their uncanny atmosphere, whereby the hills are both hostile and habitual, unsettling and enfolding. This is keenest in the four short lyrics written in Doric, the north-east dialect of Scots, which stud the book like garnets in granite."


Jist fir you i'll spik in doric. An affa guid pictur at. E quine fae Eberdeen deen affa weel an weel thocht o in these pairts. Jist seen it jist noo, fair cleemer in hich places nae far awa. Affa fine te hear aboot Neil Gunn ina.


I hoped you would Drew - as Nan Shepherd was from near Aberdeen, she is one of your own. I should have mentioned Neil Gunn too, with whom she had "a flirty and intellectually ardent correspondence". I will check out his work as although I've heard the name, haven't actually read anything by him... as yet.
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