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It is therefore when the body is keyed to its highest potential and controlled to a profound harmony deepening into something that resembles trance, that I discover most nearly what it is to be. I have walked out of the body and into the mountain. I am a manifestation of its total life, as is the starry saxifrage or the white-winged ptarmigan.

#Reading #NanShepherd #Books #Bookstodon #Scotland

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 #Books #Bookstodon #Scotland

“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain”

—Jo Milne celebrates Nan Shepherd’s achievements as an author, a poet, an editor, & an inspiring lecturer & traveller who loved literature & landscape

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/stories/nanshepherd/index.html

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #mountains #cairngorms #NanShepherd #climbing #20thcentury #womenwriters #naturewriting #InternationalMountainDay

“At a time of global ecological crisis … her intuitive understanding of the landscape & the rhythms of nature is both a clarion call & a balm for the soul”

—Scott Lyall on Nan Shepherd’s THE LIVING MOUNTAIN

https://theconversation.com/the-living-mountain-in-an-age-of-ecological-crisis-nan-shepherds-nature-writing-is-more-relevant-than-ever-119794

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #mountains #cairngorms #NanShepherd #climbing #20thcentury #womenwriters #naturewriting #InternationalMountainDay #environmentalism

But in the climbing ecstasy of thought,
Ere consummation, ere the final peak,
Come hours like this…

—Nan Shepherd, “Summit of Coire Etchachan”
published in WANDERERS: A History of Women Walking, by Kerri Andrews

Today, 11 December, is International Mountain Day

https://www.un.org/en/observances/mountain-day

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #mountains #cairngorms #NanShepherd #climbing #20thcentury #womenwriters #naturewriting #InternationalMountainDay

Summit of Coire Etchachan
Nan Shepherd

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-corniced, tumble the ice-cold waters.
And now, here, at the corrie’s summit, no peak,
No vision of the blue world, far, unattainable,
But this grey plateau, rock-strewn, vast, silent,
The dark loch, the toiling crags, the snow;
A mountain shut within itself, yet a world,
Immensity. So may the mind achieve,
Toiling, no vision of the infinite,
But a vast, dark and inscrutable sense
Of its own terror, its own glory and power.

What’s more, in “Upon Another Point”, Alison McCall untangles Nellies, Netties, Helens & Janets, & discovers tales of surreptitious knitting, as she investigates an author’s early literary endeavours and high-school hi-jinks in “Nan Shepherd’s Schooldays”

7/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/nan-shepherds-schooldays/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #NanShepherd

Nan Shepherd & her friends
21 Nov, Aberdeen – free, ticketed

Nan Shepherd has often been imagined as a solitary walker & writer. In this talk, Dr Timothy Baker looks at the importance of female friendship in Nan Shepherd’s writing & life, placing her as part of a much larger network of Aberdonian women writers & thinkers

https://aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/EVSESENQ?SETLVL=&RNI=16811409

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #NanShepherd #Aberdeen

“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

Kerri Andrews & Merryn Glover in conversation about Nan Shepherd
11 June, Pitlochry Festival Theatre – £3

Authors Dr Kerri Andrews & Merryn Glover discuss how Nan Shepherd has inspired their own walking & writing, followed by a book-signing & the matinee performance of Nan Shepherd: Naked & Unashamed

https://www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com/whats-on/merryn-glover-and-kerri-andrews-in-conversation/

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #walking #hillwalking #womenwriters

@scotlit @bookstodon @scottishlass

"Merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend, with no intention but to be with him."

Fascinating. I admit to not having read "The Living Mountain" and indeed not knowing Nan Shepherd, the writer. This powerful essay by Robert Macfarlane has shown me that this was an inexcusable omission. I will read all of Shepherd's novels, and I must read The Living Mountain.

#NanShepherd #RobertMacfarlane #TheLivingMountain

T.S. Eliot: "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."

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Contemplating Eliot, and seeking the music of language in the works of T.S. Eliot, Nan Shepherd and Paul Klee for a new project.

#harpamystica #harpmystic #tseliot #nanshepherd #paulklee #angels #soul #Mysticism #surrealism #poetry #language #clarity #soulsearch

Follow my trail:
https://www.annevanschothorst.com/animamundi
AI talks about NAN and harPoetry

Anne Vanschothorst in a room contemplating.

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T. S. Eliot

Here I am at work. Inspired by poets like Jet Roland Holst, Emily Dickinson and Antjie Krog. These grand writers have led me to Nan Shepherd, T.S. Eliot and Paul Klee. Their #art and soul are the foundation for my upcoming project called 'NAN'.

Follow my trail https://www.annevanschothorst.com/animamundi

#tseliot #nanshepherd #harp #soul #animamundi #mystic #mountain #atelierrolandholst #lmusic #peace

Nan Shepherd, novelist of the North-East

Prof Alison Lumsden, from Aberdeen University, discusses Nan Shepherd’s novels – THE QUARRY WOOD, THE WEATHERHOUSE, and A PASS IN THE GRAMPIANS – at our 2017 Schools Conference

8/8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUOwRnwNgtI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WZvMYoKDAL_wwSMSLzDldSY&index=7

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernism #20thCentury #WomenWriters

“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain”

Jo Milne at Aberdeen University celebrates Nan Shepherd’s achievements as a writer of prose & poetry, an editor, & an inspiring lecturer & traveller who loved literature & landscape

7/8

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/stories/nanshepherd/index.html

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters

But in the climbing ecstasy of thought,
Ere consummation, ere the final peak,
Come hours like this…

—Nan Shepherd, “Summit of Coire Etchachan”
Published in WANDERERS: A History of Women Walking, by Kerri Andrews

6/8

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/summit-corrie-etchachan/

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #Hillwalking

“At a time of global ecological crisis … her intuitive understanding of the landscape and the rhythms of nature is both a clarion call and a balm for the soul.”

—Scott Lyall on Nan Shepherd’s THE LIVING MOUNTAIN

5/8

https://theconversation.com/the-living-mountain-in-an-age-of-ecological-crisis-nan-shepherds-nature-writing-is-more-relevant-than-ever-119794

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #Ecology #Environment

Loch A’an, Loch A’an, hoo deep ye lie!
Tell nane yer depth and nane shall I.
Bricht though yer deepmaist pit may be,
Ye’ll haunt me till the day I dee.
Bricht, an’ bricht, an’ bricht as air,
Ye’ll haunt me noo for evermair.

—Nan Shepherd, “Loch Avon”
📷 : Nick Bramhall

4/8

https://www.flickr.com/photos/black_friction/5845274155

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #poetry #Scots #ScotsLanguage

Loch Avon, seen from across Castlegates Gulley. Looking down along the length of a long, narrow, still loch, that lies between the steep sides of a narrow glen. Photo by Nick Bramhall, 12 June 2011.

“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

3/8

https://lithub.com/on-the-nature-poetics-of-the-great-nan-shepherd-bard-of-the-highlands/

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #poetry #walking #hillwalking #mountains

Currently available on BBC Sounds – Robert Macfarlane celebrates Nan Shepherd’s intrepid literary spirit by embarking on an autumnal trip right into the heart of her favourite wild places in the #Cairngorms

2/8

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mfndd

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #poetry

Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) was born #OTD, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing, & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN, have gained attention—but she was also an important modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance

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1/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/quiet-pioneer-the-novels-of-nan-shepherd-1893-1981/

#Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters

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