Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland (Paperback)

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Across Scotland, this collection gathers contemporary writing on nature and landscape, moving between the wild and the everyday. It takes in walking and wild swimming, red deer and pigeons and wasps, remote islands and back gardens, unfolding through prose, poetry and photography.

Edited and introduced by Kathleen Jamie, Antlers of Water brings together voices including Amy Liptrot, Jim Crumley, Chitra Ramaswamy, Malachy Tallack, Amanda Thomson and many more. The range of forms allows the same ground to be approached from different angles: close observation, memory, argument, lyric attention.

Running through the collection is a shared insistence that the more than human world is not scenery, and not separate from us. The writing asks what it might mean to renegotiate that relationship, and how landscape can be read not only for beauty, but for responsibility, power, and the lives that move alongside our own.