Writing Landscape

Inhabiting a landscape, walking a landscape, writing a place and timeFor Linda Cracknell, exposure to wind, rock, mist, and salt water is integral to her writing process. She follows Susan Sontag's advice to "Love words, agonise over sentences, and pay attention to the world," observing and writing her landscapes from the particulars of each moment. In this varied essay collection, Linda backpacks on a small island that is connected to the mainland only at low tide. In winter snow, she hikes the wooded hillside close to her home, a place she is intimately familiar with in all seasons. And she retraces over three days the steps of a trek made by her parents seven decades earlier. She explores her inspirations, in nature and from other artists and their work, and she offers thoughtful writing prompts. Reading this collection will take you to new places, open your eyes to the world, and suggest ways to take note and make notes as you go-to inspire your own attentive looking, journaling, and writing practice.

About the author

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 a Saltire Award (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 serialised 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 as well as creative fiction writing.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Cracknell, Cracknell Linda
• Publisher: Saraband
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781913393724
• ISBN: 978-1-913393-72-4
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: In the Moment
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Track and field athletics, gymnastics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Esoterics: general, reference works; Mindfulness, SPORTS & RECREATION / Walking, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Mindfulness & Meditation, SPORTS & RECREATION / Hiking, Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice, Writing & editing guides, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Nature Therapy, Walking, hiking and trekking, Landscapes/ Seascapes