Writing on Nature
Thursday 17 June
11.15am - 12.15pm
Writing on Nature
Recent years have seen a renaissance of writing about the natural world, and during the pandemic nature writing offered us vicarious enchantment. This session explores writing about nature and landscape through fiction and non-fiction. Merryn Glover’s novel Of Stone and Sky, is set in the upper Spey valley where she lives. Her next project is The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd. Kathleen Jamie is an award-winning poet and essayist. Her writing is rooted in Scottish landscape and culture, as shown in her acclaimed essay collections Findings, Sightlines, and Surfacing. In 2020 she edited the first collection of contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, Antlers of Water. Chaired by literary agent Jenny Brown.
Speakers:
Merryn Glover
Kathleen Jamie
Chair:
Jenny Brown
Chair
Jenny Brown
Founder, Jenny Brown Associates
Jenny Brown established the Edinburgh-based literary agency Jenny Brown Associates in 2002. The agency is known for representing Scottish-based writers of literary and crime fiction, narrative nonfiction, and writing for children. She was previously founder director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, (of which she is now Vice Chair) and Head of Literature at the Scottish Arts Council. She is Chair of the crime writing festival Bloody Scotland.
Speakers
Merryn Glover
Writer
Merryn Glover writes fiction, drama, poetry and journalism. In a life spent crossing cultures, she was born in Kathmandu and brought up in Nepal, India and Pakistan. She went to University in Australia, keeps returning to South Asia and has called Scotland home for over 25 years. Her plays and short stories have been broadcast on Radio 4 and Radio Scotland and widely anthologised. Her first novel, A House Called Askival, is set in an Indian hill-station and her second, Of Stone and Sky, in the upper Spey valley where she lives. Her current project is The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd. Polygon 2022.
Kathleen Jamie
Poet & Essayist
Kathleen Jamie is an award-winning poet and essayist. Her writing is rooted in Scottish landscape and culture, as shown in her acclaimed essay collections Findings, Sightlines, and Surfacing. Her award-winning poetry collections include The Tree House and The Bonniest Companie.
In 2020 she edited the first collection of contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, Antlers of Water.
