IN THE CAIRNGORMS: POEMS BY NAN SHEPHERD (GALILEO PB)

Although she wrote three acclaimed novels and a remarkable prose meditation on the Cairngorms (The Living Mountain), Nan Shepherd considered her finest work to be her poetry. It took twenty-five years to write forty-six poems, each one possessed by fierce intensity and offering glimpses into what she once called “the burning heart of life”: in the Cairngorms she discovered both elemental beauty and profound metaphysical mystery. Her huge gifts as a poet were to convey these discoveries in language that remains both strange and thrilling to the modern reader.