Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) was born #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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1/9
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/quiet-pioneer-the-novels-of-nan-shepherd-1893-1981/
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Currently available on BBC Sounds – Robert Macfarlane 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
2/9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mfndd
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“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.”
—Kerri Andrews on Shepherd’s nature poetics, via @literaryhub
3/9
https://lithub.com/on-the-nature-poetics-of-the-great-nan-shepherd-bard-of-the-highlands/
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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”
📷 : Nick Bramhall, 12 June 2011
4/9
https://www.flickr.com/photos/black_friction/5845274155
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“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.”
—Scott Lyall on Nan Shepherd’s THE LIVING MOUNTAIN
5/9
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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 Kerri Andrews
6/9
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/summit-corrie-etchachan/
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“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain”
Jo Milne celebrates Nan Shepherd’s achievements as a writer of prose & poetry, an editor, & an inspiring lecturer & traveller who loved literature & landscape
7/9
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/stories/nanshepherd/index.html
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“The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to be carried along by her flow, to circle in the eddies of her experience”
—Fraser MacDonald on growing up in Nan Shepherd’s village, for the London Review of Books
8/9
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/fraser-macdonald/diary
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Nan Shepherd, novelist of the North-East
Prof Alison Lumsden discusses Nan Shepherd’s novels – THE QUARRY WOOD, THE WEATHERHOUSE, and A PASS IN THE GRAMPIANS – at our 2017 Schools Conference
9/9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUOwRnwNgtI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WZvMYoKDAL_wwSMSLzDldSY&index=7
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