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Kim V. Goldsmith
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Crìochaire-cladaich/ Keeping close to shore
Since I started my residency* at the Admiral’s House on Skye in early August, I’ve written and rewritten about 5,000 words in short-form texts that relate to periods of attentive listening, observations, and listening back to field recordin...
Walking without a...
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Squaring the Circle
I am pleased that my essay Squaring the Circle has been published in Caught by the River. In it I walk forageable and forbidden places near my home in Edinburgh.
It was written in response to a Walking the Land brief from David Tidsall and Andy Fr...
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2025
Words to Light the Dark – hosted by Chantal Lyons
What can the planet’s past tell us about the future? How do we relate to nature when our bodies try to keep us from it? And how do you write about creatures that don’t wish to be found? Join Wainwright Prize-nominated authors Sophie Yeo, Polly Atkin, and Chantal Lyons – host of this Salon and walk · listen · create’s Writer-in-Residence – as they explore the
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2024
A Coastal Treasure hunt with Kathryn Tann author of ‘Seaglass’
Video recording of a Walking Writers Salon with Kathryn Tann, author of ‘Seaglass’ her debut collection of essays – art memoire, part nature writing. On a windswept stretch of the Durham coastline, there’s treasure to be found: jewels of shining sea glass, swept in by the tide after years at sea. Gathered together in a
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Old Birder’s Almanac
Nature writing from a passionate birdwatcher