Nan Shepherd wants to feel. To go against the mountain, she answers the taunt when the mountain itself asks “fey?” To pit oneself against the expanse over and over again was to be daring, challenging, brimming for want of pushing the limit, the summit. A little mad.
Monthly Archives: April 2020
Written during my year as writer-in-residence for Forestry England The Fern Ticket I *In the Forest of Dean, to have had your first amourous experience in the forest was to get your ‘fern ticket’ A taboo so sweet A myth so endearing A lover’s retreat A comfortable clearing Where prying eyes need not …