The Shepherd shelf is filling up. Just as the Wild Geese landed, the paperback edition of Into the Mountain appeared. Galileo Publishing has done a beautiful job of both. Read reviews. . This post may contain affiliate links. This means…
Talking Nan Shepherd: A blether about book festivals
Nan Shepherd is under discussion at Book Festivals in Hexham and Aberdeen in 2018
Quiet influence: Nan Shepherd’s lonely uphill struggle
The great celebrator of the Cairngorms has long been overlooked. Charlotte Peacock finally redresses the balance. Fiona Sampson The Spectator View of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland (image: iStock) The Spectator, 6 January 2018, 9:00 AM ‘It’s a grand thing…
Nan Shepherd: on the radio
Woman’s Hour Thursday 14 December Poet and writer Nan Shepherd: In the 1930’s Nan Shepherd was one of Scotland’s best known poets and writers, but her masterpiece The Living Mountain languished unpublished in a drawer and she died before it…
Hole Ousia
via It new-creates the tune it sings — Hole Ousia
Baltic
As Margery Marshall said, it was, indeed, a ‘baltic’ night, but despite that, well over a hundred people turned out to the event in Grantown on Spey. Writer and photographer Chris Townsend has written a post on his blog about…