Writing Landscape / Linda Cracknell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cracknell, Linda, 1959- author.

Series:

In the Moment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (69 pages)

Place of Publication:

Glasgow, England : Saraband, [2023]

Summary:

Inhabiting a landscape, walking a landscape, writing a place and time. Linda Cracknell is a writer of place and nature who believes in being alert, observing, and writing from the particulars of each experience. Engaging bodily with her writing, she is someone for whom getting mud on her boots, sleeping high up in the hills, or being slapped by salt water can all be part of her process. She follows Susan Sontag's advice to "Love words, agonize over sentences and pay attention to the world." In this varied collection of essays, Linda backpacks on a small island that is connected to the mainland at low tide, musing on the nineteenth-century Scottish writer whose character was shipwrecked there. She hikes the wooded mountain trail close to her home in winter snow-a place she is intimately familiar with in all weathers and seasons-and she retraces the steps of a multiday hike made almost seven decades after her parents trod the route together. She explores her inspirations, in nature and from other artists and their work. Reading this collection will open your eyes to the world around you and how you can observe, take note, and later commit those notes and memories to written pieces that will evoke the place and time.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Map

Script and Scrape

The Great Affair: Writing With the Flow

Lunar Cycling

Getting Away From it All?

The Painting and the Verb

The Writer, the Island and the Inspiration

In Solitude Where We Are Least Alone

How to Be Free

Weaving High Worlds

Joyous Messengers

Street Play in Edinburgh

'Today I Stand in a Field and Shout'

A Bubbling Immediacy

Borrowed Boots

The Indoor Outdoor Writer

Serious Noticing for Playful People

Acknowledgements

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781915089878

1915089875

OCLC:

1376195374