Rooted in an array of native mythologies, Sharon Blackie’s work takes us back to cosmologies centred around wild and powerful women - the guardians of our ancestral lands. Folklore, magic, and ecological consciousness coalesce as she explores the meaning of place, history, and the imagination.
Hagitude
Deftly interweaving myth, psychology and memoir, Sharon Blackie argues that menopause ushers in a rich and vibrant new phase of life, and explores the many different ways in which women can flourish during what is so often portrayed as a time of decline. Hagitude unearths the stories of the little-known but powerful elder women in European myth and folklore, inspiring readers to imagine that the last decades of our lives might be the most dynamic of all. This moving and uplifting book will inspire a new generation of female elders: women who have reclaimed their Inner Hag, matured into their own unique brand of hagitude and who are ready to pass down their deep feminine wisdom for the benefit of the wider Earth community.
If Women Rose Rooted
Drawing on powerful women and guardians of the land in Celtic mythology Blackie leads us on a quest to find our place in the world:
'If women remember that once upon a time we sang with the youngest of seals and flew with the wings of swans, that we forged our own paths through the dark forests while creating a community of its many inhabitants, then we will rise up rooted like trees.
And if we rise up rooted, like trees…well then, women might indeed save not only ourselves, but the world.'
Foxfire Wolfskin
Drawing on myth and fairy tales found across Europe - from Croatia to Sweden, Ireland to Russia - Sharon Blackie brings to life women’s remarkable ability to transform themselves in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances.
These stories are about coming to terms with our animal nature, exploring the ways in which we might renegotiate our fractured relationship with the natural world, and uncovering the wildness - and wilderness - within.
Enchanted Life
'Above all, to live an enchanted life is to fall in love with the world all over again. This is an active choice, a leap of faith which is necessary not just for our own sakes, but for the sake of the wide, wild Earth in whose being and becoming we are so profoundly and beautifully entangled.'
The Long Delirious Burning Blue
Cat Munro – who has never taken a day off in her working life – quits her corporate job and starts flying lessons in a small plane over the Arizona desert, confronting her fear not only of death, but of life. Her mother, Laura, moves back to the Scottish village where she spent the first years of her marriage to Cat’s abusive father. Though they are apart, the past connects mother and daughter, haunts them, binds them.
From the excoriating heat of the Arizona desert to the misty flow of a Highland sea-loch, Sharon Blackie’s soaring first novel presents us with the transformative power of landscape, and of storytelling, in women’s lives.
Above all, The Long Delirious Burning Blue is a story of courage, endurance and redemption.
Rooted in an array of native mythologies, Sharon Blackie’s work takes us back to cosmologies centred around wild and powerful women - the guardians of our ancestral lands. Folklore, magic, and ecological consciousness coalesce as she explores the meaning of place, history, and the imagination.
Hagitude
Deftly interweaving myth, psychology and memoir, Sharon Blackie argues that menopause ushers in a rich and vibrant new phase of life, and explores the many different ways in which women can flourish during what is so often portrayed as a time of decline. Hagitude unearths the stories of the little-known but powerful elder women in European myth and folklore, inspiring readers to imagine that the last decades of our lives might be the most dynamic of all. This moving and uplifting book will inspire a new generation of female elders: women who have reclaimed their Inner Hag, matured into their own unique brand of hagitude and who are ready to pass down their deep feminine wisdom for the benefit of the wider Earth community.
If Women Rose Rooted
Drawing on powerful women and guardians of the land in Celtic mythology Blackie leads us on a quest to find our place in the world:
'If women remember that once upon a time we sang with the youngest of seals and flew with the wings of swans, that we forged our own paths through the dark forests while creating a community of its many inhabitants, then we will rise up rooted like trees.
And if we rise up rooted, like trees…well then, women might indeed save not only ourselves, but the world.'
Foxfire Wolfskin
Drawing on myth and fairy tales found across Europe - from Croatia to Sweden, Ireland to Russia - Sharon Blackie brings to life women’s remarkable ability to transform themselves in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances.
These stories are about coming to terms with our animal nature, exploring the ways in which we might renegotiate our fractured relationship with the natural world, and uncovering the wildness - and wilderness - within.
Enchanted Life
'Above all, to live an enchanted life is to fall in love with the world all over again. This is an active choice, a leap of faith which is necessary not just for our own sakes, but for the sake of the wide, wild Earth in whose being and becoming we are so profoundly and beautifully entangled.'
The Long Delirious Burning Blue
Cat Munro – who has never taken a day off in her working life – quits her corporate job and starts flying lessons in a small plane over the Arizona desert, confronting her fear not only of death, but of life. Her mother, Laura, moves back to the Scottish village where she spent the first years of her marriage to Cat’s abusive father. Though they are apart, the past connects mother and daughter, haunts them, binds them.
From the excoriating heat of the Arizona desert to the misty flow of a Highland sea-loch, Sharon Blackie’s soaring first novel presents us with the transformative power of landscape, and of storytelling, in women’s lives.
Above all, The Long Delirious Burning Blue is a story of courage, endurance and redemption.
