Not Too Busy To Write S9 E2. Kerri ni Dochartaigh on finding home in the Irish landscape
Kerri ni Dochartaigh is the award winning author of Thin Places and Cacophany of Bone. Kerri's work delves deep into home and belonging, from her childhood in Derry during the troubles, where her family were forced to leave their home, to an adulthood of wrestlessness, unable to find a feeling of home, until she returned to the Irish landscape of her early years.
We talk about intergenerational trauma, what it means to our sense of safety and belonging to have a home forcibly removed, as so many are facing in the world today, and finding home in the Irish landscape, in community, in our bodies and ritual.
We also talk about creativity and caregiving, and the joys of teaching and mentoring other writers.
Links
Thin Places - Kerri ni Dochartaigh
Cacophony of Bone - Kerri ni Dochartaigh
In The Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing (Daunt Books)
The Garden Against Time - Olivia Laing
Kerri on Substack kerrindochartaigh.substack.com
Penny on Substack pennywincer.substack.com