Alexandra Harris & Laurence Scott: The Rising Down
Thursday 21 March 2024, 7 p.m. · 54 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/4/1/4/9/4199414-1-eng-GB/Alexandra%20Harris%20pod.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/4/1/4/9/4199414-1-eng-GB/Alexandra%20Harris%20pod.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/4/1/4/9/4199414-1-eng-GB/Alexandra%20Harris%20pod.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/4/1/4/9/4199414-1-eng-GB/Alexandra%20Harris%20pod.jpg 1200w)
Alexandra Harris has previously cast her probing critical eye over poetic and artistic responses to English weather (in Weatherland), and English art of the 1930s and 40s (in Romantic Moderns); now, in The Rising Down (Faber & Faber) she turns it on the West Sussex landscape of her childhood, revealing the layers of buried lives beneath a familiar landscape in a work which the Independent has described as ‘scholarship at its life-enhancing best’.
Harris was in conversation with essayist and critic Laurence Scott, author of Picnic Comma Lightning and The Four Dimensional Human.
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