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A dry stone wall and open fields in England
Writing wild places

SUBJECTS:  English

YEARS:  9–10


How do you write about a place that is disobedient?

Four of Britain's prominent writers consider the emotions that wild places evoke.

In this clip, Robert Macfarlane, Simon Armitage, Sara Maitland and Owen Sheers consider the qualities of wildness: silence; escape; beauty; threat; and a sense of being both lost and found.


Acknowledgements

Video © British Library.


Production Date: 2016


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