“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
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On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands
But in the climbing ecstasy of thought, Ere consummation, ere the final peak, Come hours like this. Behind, the long defile, The steep rock-path, alongside which, from under Snow-caves, sharp-corni…Kerri Andrews (Literary Hub)
