What they’re saying about Scree…
Helen Mort (poet, fiction-writer, climber, runner):
“Wow. Just wow. I've never seen anything like this. Scree is amazing. I lost myself in all the experiments. And I'm so fascinated by the questions posed, especially the idea of writing as a form of erosion. Scree is so immersive, so timely, so radical, so thoughtfully framed.”
Charlie Gere (author of Why I Hate the Lake District):
“At a time of ecological catastrophe we urgently need to adjust our relations to the rural environment and to understand our complicity in its degradation. This is not just about the practical issues of living more sensitively in this environment but of rethinking our very understanding. Lucy Burnett’s Scree does exactly that for one of the most fetishized landscapes in the world, the Lake District. It offers us the tools and the opportunity to reimagine this area in all its lived complexity. It could not be more timely.”
Grevel Lindop (poet; author of A Literary Guide to the Lake District):
“At last, a creative mind is starting to crack open the carapace of assumptions that has hardened around this part of the Cumbrian terrain. The routes, challenges and experiments offered here promise the chance to begin rethinking and re-experiencing not just the ‘Lakes’ but any space or situation within Nature – which is, of course, us and everything.”