Moving Mountains
26 October 2023
Imprint: Footnote Press
Synopsis
'An anthology to treasure and return to' ELINOR CLEGHORN
'Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful' LUCY JONES
'Deeply affecting' TOM SHAKESPEARE
'Promises to change the landscape of nature writing' LIZZIE HUXLEY-JONES
A first-of-its-kind anthology of nature writing by authors living with chronic illness and physical disability
WITH A FOREWORD BY SAMANTHA WALTON
Through twenty-five pieces, the writers of Moving Mountains offer a vision of nature that encompasses...
'Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful' LUCY JONES
'Deeply affecting' TOM SHAKESPEARE
'Promises to change the landscape of nature writing' LIZZIE HUXLEY-JONES
A first-of-its-kind anthology of nature writing by authors living with chronic illness and physical disability
WITH A FOREWORD BY SAMANTHA WALTON
Through twenty-five pieces, the writers of Moving Mountains offer a vision of nature that encompasses...
Details
26 October 2023
288 pages
9781804440537
Imprint: Footnote Press
Reviews
Bringing together startlingly original voices, Moving Mountains invites us not only to look at nature, but to live alongside it in community and collaboration. Privileging the experiences, perceptions, and perspectives of disabled and chronically ill writers and poets, this anthology is both an urgent call for justice, and an endlessly moving exploration of what it means to be human. Compelling, challenging, contemplative and curious, Moving Mountains is an anthology to treasure and return toElinor Cleghorn, author of UNWELL WOMEN
Moving Mountains is a rich gift of much-needed stories and cosmologies that help us see the earth, our world and interdependence, and our ideas of "nature" and the "natural" with greater clarity. I found each of the narratives uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful. Beautifully curated and edited with a moving introduction by Louise Kenward, Moving Mountains is a generative and profound anthology that I know I will return to - and it will help us untangle ourselves from many of the modern myths which separate and severLucy Jones, author of LOSING EDEN and MATRESCENCE
Personal involvements with nature are exposed in this deeply affecting collection, which will stay with youTom Shakespeare
Some of my favourite writers and artists are collected here. Together they present a strong argument for the expansion of nature writing into the realm of illness and disability - whether from bed, chair, balcony or close neighbourhood. What if your illness and/or disability - or for that matter ableism and lack of access - restricts your capacity to "immerse" yourself in nature? What can experiencing nature through an unsteady, uneven body reveal? In Eli Clare's words, a world that "relishes crookedness, wholeness and brokenness"Alice Hattrick, author of ILL FEELINGS