How should contemporary writers of place and Nature confront environmental crises? Is it possible to write lyrically about the natural world when everything you describe is under threat? And what of the personal elements that often surface in narrative non-fiction? Why should anyone care about a writer’s individual trauma in an age of mass extinction? In Cairn, Kathleen Jamie shows us with supremely artful understatement exactly how to address these challenges, subtly fusing the personal and the polemical, the local and the global, the momentary and the epochal.
Jamie began her writing ...
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