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In this episode we chat to writer Kerri ní Dochartaigh about her new book Thin Places (Canongate) and its powerful weaving of memoir, history, Irish folklore, language and nature writing. We discuss her childhood growing up in Derry amidst the Troubles, the necessity of expanding our kinship with the non-human world and the ways in which a new generation of writers of landscape are blazing open the field. 

You can find Kerri's book at storysmithbooks.com/tenderbuttons. 

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Episode References 

• Manchán Mangan, Thirty-Two Worlds for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape(Gill:2020) 
• The Willowherb Review, edited by Jessica J. Lee (whose most recent book, 'Two Trees Make a Forest' is here)
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass(Penguin, 2020)
• Kerri's Pocket Guide to Nature Writing with Spread the Word 
• Lauret Savoy, Trace: History, Race and the American Landscape(Catapult: 2015) 
• Nina Mingya Powles, Small Bodies of Wateris forthcoming August 2021 (Canongate)
• Rebecca Tamás, Strangers: Essays on the Human and Non-Human(Makina Books: 2020)
• BBC documentary ‘Tidal Sense’ with Signe Lidén