#547: Horizon

Horizon was Barry Lopez' penultimate book, and a substantial piece of work which showed his particular love of the world, and his way of describing it. 

There is a review of the book here, by Robert MacFarlane.

MacFarlane met Barry a number of times, and has written about this, and there are videos available on YouTube of them discussing Barry's life and work.

Horizon remains one of the finest descriptions of the slow change that has taken place within the life times of those of us over the age of 50. Communicating the likely changes that will take place in the next 50 years while remaining positive is the difficult thing...

#41: Remembering Barry Lopez

One of the proposed 'benefits' of the new specification is that it will introduce students to nature writing (along with other media such as paintings and literature...)

I hope that one of them is Barry Lopez. 

He is described in this piece as an author who tied people to place.

He deserves to be on any official reading list. We'll be suggesting our own Reading List as part of our proposed resources for those teaching the new specification.

Barry passed away in December 2020.

Thanks to Point Reyes Books for organising this webinar.

A special tribute to Barry Lopez (1945-2020), featuring John Luther Adams, Bathsheba Demuth, Jane Hirshfield, Robert Macfarlane, Colum McCann, and Rebecca Solnit, along with Barry’s wife Debra Gwartney. John Freeman served as moderate the conversation. 

This event was presented by Point Reyes Books, in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company, Emergence Magazine, and Orion Magazine. 

This recording has been edited due to copyright issues. In the original, John Luther Adams' tribute was followed by a recording of "Sky With Four Suns." The event concluded with an excerpt from "Horizons," Jeremy Seifert's film about Barry Lopez, which can be found on the Emergence Magazine website. See later in the post.

I've read Barry's final collection of essays which came out over the summer 2022, and it is really rather wonderful and memorable, and shocking... and it will make you cry.

Get yourself a copy...

Here's Horizons:

Horizons from Emergence Magazine on Vimeo.