NEVER MISS AN ISSUE!

Sign up to receive our monthly newsletter.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
  • This field is hidden when viewing the form
Image of a book cover featuring a painted landscape scene in soft, muted tones. Rolling hills and mountain slopes fill the cover, rendered in shades of blue, grey, and gold. A narrow valley runs through the centre, with a faint path or river cutting across the scene. A distant human figure and animals appear as tiny silhouettes near the bottom, emphasizing the scale of the landscape. The title “The Weight of Quiet Things” is printed in white text at the top, followed by the subtitle “Essays, Stories & Poems on Scotland’s Living Landscapes.” At the bottom, the text reads “An Arkbound Collection.”

ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Arkbound

ISBN: 9781911740094

RRP: £12.99

PAGES: 277

PUBLICATION DATE:
April 1, 2026

BUY THIS BOOK

As an Amazon Associate and Bookshop.org affiliate we earn from qualifying purchases.

The Weight of Quiet Things

By Arkbound Foundation

The Weight of Quiet Things gathers essays, stories and poems that explore the deep, enduring relationship between the Scottish landscape and its people. Many of the contributing writers were born, raised and built their lives in Scotland, while a few are visitors who were changed by their time in Scotland – be it the isolation of the Highland hills, the voices in the howling gaoth mhór or the humble power of a lone damh.

Together, these works trace a Scotland shaped by labour, collective memory and inheritance of a land that can never be owned. This is a collection about what we take from the land, what the land takes from us and the weight of what remains.

Share this

Arkbound Foundation (Author)

Featured authors include… Jeff Kemp, Dr Helen Moore, Moira McPartlin, John Weeds, Philippa Ramsden, Ian Grosz, Judith Younger, Margaret Poynor-Clark, Emily Munro, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, Elizabeth Wein, Callum Aitken, Rhona Stephens, Lucy Fraser-Gunn, David C. Weinczok, Jeff Charles, Melissa Ramage