The EarthLines Magazine blog
Archive for February 2012
Guest Post: Tess of the D’Urbervilles on Marlborough Down, by Tim Halpin
We are grateful to Tim Halpin for another of the rather unusual reviews from his blog, Read by the River – subtitled ‘Book reviews on location’. Tim has a new take on book reviewing: ’I don’t read books just anywhere. The location has to be appropriate somehow. Maybe there’s an obvious connection between the setting of … Continue reading
Three fine things, circles, and a poem
As a former narrative therapist specialising in storytelling, I’m perfectly comfortable with the idea that we’re narrative beings. But what people don’t often understand is that all the best narratives take the form of circles, not straight lines. In this wild place where we live and croft, our lives are tied up with the circles … Continue reading
Why storytelling has any relevance at all to ecoliterature
You’ll be seeing quite a lot of references to storytelling in and around the EarthLines project; some of you may be wondering what, if anything, it has to do with ecoliterature. Especially given that it springs from an oral rather than a written tradition. Well, there are a number of reasons for it, and we’ll … Continue reading
Guest post by Ian Hill: ‘Changing the rules: Rebecca Solnit and Kathleen Raine’
A reflection on the work of Rebecca Solnit and of Kathleen Raine, by regular guest contributor Ian Hill (http://www.printedland.blogspot.com/) In my sitting-room at home, in the bookcase beside the chair onto which falls natural light from the window, is my collection of books about place: some nature writing, some travel writing, psychogeography and environmental activitism; … Continue reading
Weather
We are told by the older residents of our local crofting townships that this autumn and winter have been the worst in living memory here in the Outer Hebrides. Wetter and windier. It’s true that we seem to have been battling gales since October, and the already boggy ground has been sodden for months. In … Continue reading
