Amy Liptrot - Orkney Nature Festival

Amy Liptrot joins Stewart Bain at two RSPB Scotland nature reserves in Orkney for an exclusive interview for Orkney Nature Festival.
Amy discusses growing up in the islands, her love of nature and the two books that have brought her success as a writer. Amy also talks about her time working for the RSPB as Corncrake Officer in Orkney and the film that is currently in production of her debut book, The Outrun.

I love the shifts of perspective and perception running throughout this lovely interview, like the shawl that is growing ever so slowly as I am sitting listening to it, crocheting with clumsy fingers since I have discovered four balls of moss-green wool in the depths of a drawer and thought I would set myself a challenge. I discovered this stream since I had chanced upon a copy of „The Outrun“ in my local bookshop and was curious about the landscape and world Amy describes in this book. And now even more connections, analogies, strange parallels, as I am sitting here struggling to connect a thread with itself to form something graspable and manifest. I love the scene of Amy reading from „The Instant“: describing a scene at Berghain in Berlin (which I imagine to be as different from this outdoor setting as anything), then shifting to Ernst Haeckel‘s drawings, and somehow combining and connecting all these different shards of world to make sense of it. Thank you for this video!

[@Billrose333]

Read the Outrun book, wonderful... Loved it.

[@kimbakersassi5993]

What a fun way to do this chat ! Wonderful.

[@birdshenanigans8506]

Just wish that everyone with so much passion would put their energy into the bigger picture. I love birds just as much... but it's like watching something you can feel better about?