![]() Macdonald demonstrated that nature writing can be passionately erudite and beautifully observed, but also viscerally intimate and inseparable from the rawness and disorder of our lived experience. While it was not without its precursors (Olivia Laing's To the River, for instance, charts a similar confluence of personal and natural currents), its influence now seems inescapable. It tended, too, to be the preserve of writers of a recognisable type (male, donnish, faintly druidical), leading the poet Kathleen Jamie to deride the cult of the “Lone Enraptured Male”.Īll that changed, of course, with the phenomenal success of Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk. ![]() It tended, until recently, to come in handsomely produced and gift-friendly volumes, and to take a gently contemplative and often lyrical approach to its subject. We have come to expect more of nature writing than we once did. ![]()
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