The only book of poems from this legendary author (who wrote the still bestselling The Living Mountain) and who is now being re-discovered as one of the greats of 20th century women writers. Foreword by Robert Macfarlane, author of The Lost Words and The Old Ways. Nan Shepherd was a Scottish Modernist writer and poet. She was an early writer in Scots, who wrote three stand-alone novels set in small, fictional communities in North Scotland. The Scottish landscape and weather played a major role in her novels and provided the focus for her poetry.