Evergreen Dazed wrote: tjj wrote: drewbhoy wrote: tjj wrote: thelonious wrote:
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.
Try 'The Silver Bough' or, my favourite, 'The Well at the Worlds End'.
Just remembered, 'The Other Landscape' is another one I really enjoyed. I also have a copy of 'Half Light' which is a selection of his short stories, which I haven't got around to yet.
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