I loved the part in your book where unable to travel, you took an imaginary trip to Prague. I decided that I got a commission from a brilliant magazine called Inc,. I N Q U E and said that I wanted to go to Prague because I've never been. And also because I thought my father might be there. But what I was going to do was instead of flying there, it's obviously impossible and anyway, bad, that I thought I would ride there on a horse with no name called Herbie. So I borrowed the idea of Herbie for a month. And then entirely in my imagination with the help of, of Google, I went to Prague. He wasn't there
Jay Griffiths’ writing has long explored the link between land, culture and our potential for connection, but her father’s death during lockdown made this more vital than ever. Denied the comfort or closure of a funeral, Jay had to find other ways to connect, mourn and memorialise, and in this gentle, wide-ranging conversation she and Katherine talk about imaginary journeys, ritual and delving into a sense of place.
Behind all of Jay’s work is an ecological urgency, and a sense of grief for the life that we seem to be losing. Here, it’s expressed through the idea of homelessness, both literal and metaphorical. But she also introduces us to the character of Nemesis, offering us a model for justice that might just see us through the next decades.
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