Writing Landscape

Linda Cracknell

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Saraband
02 January 2024

Creative writing & creative writing guides; Writing & editing guides; Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice

Series: In the Moment

"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."

By: Linda Cracknell
Imprint: Saraband
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 111mm,
ISBN: 9781913393724
ISBN 10: 1913393720
Series: In the Moment
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 02 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Linda Cracknell is a writer of narrative nonfiction on the natural world, as well as of fiction and radio scripts. Her first story collection was nominated for Scotland's National Book Awards and the Robin Jenkins Literary Award for environmental writing, and her essay collection Doubling Back: Ten Paths Trodden in Memory, about journeys she took on foot in Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, and Kenya, was serialized for BBC Radio as a Book of the Week. All of Linda's writing is inspired first and foremost by place, and she teaches nature and place writing.

Reviews for Writing Landscape

'An object lesson in attentive looking … wonderfully intense … a small book, but a mighty one.' -- Scotsman 'A really inspirational read … a book that takes you by the hand and puts your fingers in the sand and soil … a call to meditation.' Alistair Braidwood -- Scots Whay Hae

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