Living on an Island – Expressing the Earth

£13.70

A memoir about leaving Glasgow to live on the Isle of Luing and an account of the growth of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics and of those writers, artists and scientists who have contributed to it.

Description

Living on an Island Expressing the Earth is the true story of a man who grew up in the city of Glasgow and whose love of the coast took him to live on the slate Isle of Luing in Argyll. It tells of the struggle of the people of Luing to sustain and grow their community and survive Covid-19 lockdown. Norman Bissell was inspired to express the Earth creatively by the Scottish poet-thinker Kenneth White and became Director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics in 2002. On his journeys to Ireland, to the American west and east coasts, and in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, he reveals how women like Joan Eardley, Rachel Carson, Katharine Stewart and Nan Shepherd were forerunners of geopoetics as well as men like Robert Burns, Hugh Miller and George Orwell. This fascinating story ranges widely in place and time and touches the heart.

300 pages

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