I was part of The Poetry Detective’s Overwintering episode on BBC Radio 4 • I’m appearing in Margate at the Turner gallery’s first Winter Wellness festival on 30th January • I’ll be taking part in the Ceylon Literary Festival, 13th-15th February, in conversation with Helen Macdonald, and with Sukanya Wignaraja • Our next Book Club read will be The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey.
THE CLEARING WITH KATHERINE MAY
Ece Temelkuran’s landscape of belonging
Hello,
In this week’s episode Ece Temelkuran, the writer and modern sage who forewarned the world of the rise of fascism, explains why she ‘put her heart in the freezer’ 10 years ago when she fled her country of birth and how finding traces of home all around are helping her to heal.
From a beloved old cardigan to episodes of Downton Abbey, from being surrounded by Turkish food in Berlin to talking to her three favourite trees in the park; in this moving conversation Ece reveals the power of finding joy in the little things, as we collectively go through what she calls our ‘winter of humanity’.
A powerful call to arms and a must-listen for those of us searching for hope in difficult times.
Show notes
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Buy How to Lose a Country here
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