Gathering
Women of Colour on Nature
Published on 15. February 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-912489-74-9 (ISBN)
Description
Gathering brings together essays by women of colour across the UK writing about their relationships with nature, in a genre long-dominated by male, white, middle-class writers. In redressing this imbalance, this moving collection considers climate justice, neurodiversity, mental health, academia, inherited histories, colonialism, whiteness, music, hiking and so much more.
These personal, creative, and fierce essays will broaden both conversations and horizons about our living world, encouraging readers to consider their own experience with nature and their place within it.
These personal, creative, and fierce essays will broaden both conversations and horizons about our living world, encouraging readers to consider their own experience with nature and their place within it.
Reviews / Votes
What fresh insights can be gleaned from the writers gathered together in this anthology? Many. * The Scotsman * An unapologetic and important book. * Nation Cymru * A remarkable and ground-breaking collection about women of colour moving through nature * The Skinny * A collection of refreshing, diverse and personal essays on aspects of the natural world and the authors' relationship to that. * The Big Issue *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
12 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
170 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912489-74-9 (9781912489749)
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Persons
Durre Shahwar is a writer and the Co-Editor of Gathering, an essay anthology on nature, climate, the landscape by women of colour. She is currently working on her first sole-authored book. It is a narrative non-fiction book on the themes of language, identity, and belonging as a Pakistani-Welsh person.
Nasia Sarwar-Skuse is a writer and PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Swansea University. Nasia was awarded the Writers' Bursary by Literature Wales in 2019. Her work has appeared in a number of publications.
Nasia Sarwar-Skuse is a writer and PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Swansea University. Nasia was awarded the Writers' Bursary by Literature Wales in 2019. Her work has appeared in a number of publications.