Book cover in blue and cream by Elif Shafak

Book cover with orange text on cream -Station Eleven

Book cover with a rag doll with blue eyes The Bluest Eye

Book cover in white with gold lettering - the Living Mountain

Happy #InternationalWomensDay !
Here are a few of my favourite books by women writers, many others have thrilled and inspired me to write.
There Are Rivers In The Sky #ElifShafak Station Eleven @emilymandel.bsky.social The Bluest Eye #ToniMorrison The Living Mountain #NanShepherd
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The Hill Burns So without sediment / Run the clear burns of my country, / Fiercely pure, / Transparent as light / Gathered into its own unity, / Lucent and without colour; / Or green, / Like...

“The Hill Burns” by Nan Shepherd @byleaveswelive.bsky.social

"And these pure waters
Leap from the adamantine rocks,
The granites and schists
Of my dark and stubborn country".

#NanShepherd #Poetry

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/hill-bu...

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Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.

#Reading #NanShepherd […]

“One walks among elementals, and elementals are not governable." - Nan Shepherd
#NanShepherd #ShepherdSunday #naturewriting #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #photographersofbluesky #stunday #eastcoastkin #midwest #marsh #wetlands

“Often the most essential thing in the whole landscape is its silence.” - Nan Shepherd
#NanShepherd #nature #naturewriting #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #wetland #marsh #midwest

“In September dawns I hardly breathe – I am an image in a ball of glass. The world is suspended there, and I in it.” - Nan Shepherd
#NanShepherd #ShepherdSaturday #naturewriting #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #forest #midwest

I look back, I look forward. I am wandering off to misty Lofoten whilst projecting myself near the clearest lake in the Cairngorn mountains. The humbling majestic landscapes make me listen to classical composers. I shall inhale their music. #Norway #Scotland #nanshepherd #philosophy #poetry #nature

To Know A Mountain What does it take to know a mountain? Tired of all the stories focused on racing to the summit, Hannah Westhenry fell into the pages of her beloved book The Living…

'To Know a Mountain' an expedition inspired by Nan Shepherd's Living Mountain from Hannah Westhenry, Emily Baker, Michelle Sanders, Jennifer McGowan, Moon Seungsung, Alice Boyd, & Ameena Rojee
I enjoyed this when I saw it at a Kendal Festival evening
#Scotland #NanShepherd
vimeo.com/995396817?p=0s

To go out, means to go in (oneself). Een van mijn favorieten. Ook de introductie en nawoord zijn zeer de moeite waard: 'The living mountain' van de geweldige Nan Shepherd. #leestip #literatuur #NanShepherd #TheLivingMountain

“My eyes were in my feet.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

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Here i am writing intuitively. My eyes are in my hands at the moment. Sheer joy! 🎶💕

#automaticwriting #inspiration #harpamystica #newmusic #meditative #harp #videoessay #nanshepherd #eliot #klee #virginiawoolf #women #art #composer

Everyone into the mountain! Nan Shepherd’s enduring legacy Shepherd’s continuing influence can be seen in several contributions to There She Goes, a new book of travel writing by women, writes Roger Cox

Everyone into the mountain! Nan Shepherd’s enduring legacy

www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/ou... #books #mountains #cairngorms #scotland #nanshepherd #travel #travelwriting @saraband-books.bsky.social

#NanShepherd

The quiet drama of these places unfolds, whether I am there to witness it or not.

Thinking of Nan Shepherd, and of the reward of coming to know a place deeply, through all seasons

#nature #naturewriting #naturephotography #poetsofbluesky #nanshepherd

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books
#BookSky
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#BookChallenge
Day twelve
#NanShepherd #TheLivingMountain

For #InternationalMountainDay, a wee film: "How the #Earth Must See Itself" set to words of 'The Living Mountain' written by Scottish writer/poet #NanShepherd.

Created by Lucy Cash and Simone Kenyon. Produced by National Theatre of #Scotland and Scottish Sculpture Workshop. youtu.be/Tty8pAPD8HY?...

One of the most impactful nature/environmental books I’ve read yet — *The Living Mountain* by Nan Shepherd. (Especially the edition that has the masterful introduction by Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social .)

#naturewriting #nanshepherd #scotland #mountains