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. br br Foreword by Robert Macfarlane, author of The Lost Words and The Old Ways. br br 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.