Antlers of Water

Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland

Kathleen Jamie

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781786899811
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786899804
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

'Luminous' The Times
'Beautiful' Caught by the River

Bringing together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back gardens, through prose, poetry and photography.

Edited and introduced by Kathleen Jamie, and with contributions from Amy Liptrot, Jim Crumley, Chitra Ramaswamy, Malachy Tallack, Amanda Thomson and many more, Antlers of Water urges us to renegotiate our relationship with the more-than-human world, in writing which is by turns celebratory, radical and political.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Getting the Hang of the Wind
• Native
• The Wasps’ Byke
• Bones of the Forth
• The Lurgies
• Three Meditations on Absence in Nature and Life
• Lunar Cycling
• Plastic Megaliths
• Signs for Alva
• Littoral Rising
• A Handful of Talons
• I Da Welk Ebb
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Solastalgia
• Mòinteach Leòdhais: the Lewis Moorland
• From Ben Dorain: A Conversation with a Mountain
• Around Some Islands
• Northern Raven
• The Ruling Class
• At Diarmaid’s Grave
• Find the Ground
• The Bog-Eye of the Human
• From A Place-Aware Dictionary
• Swimming Away from My Baby
• About the Authors