Martin Shaw Audiobooks

Liturgies of the Wild: myth, faith and landscape, read aloud by Martin Shaw

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.5/5 average

41 listener ratings

Who is Martin Shaw?

Liturgy is a church word, and setting it beside the wild is the tension the whole title is built on. Formal worship on one side, uncultivated land on the other, and Liturgies of the Wild proposing that the two have rather more to say to each other than either tradition usually admits.

The shelving follows suit. Our catalogue places the work under religion and spirituality and under politics and society, which suggests a book unwilling to treat the sacred as a purely private matter. Martin Shaw reads it aloud personally, and for prose with this sort of cadence that feels less like a credit than a condition.

What can be said here is what the recording contains.

Martin Shaw in audiobooks

Eight and a half hours in the author’s own voice gives the language its proper weight, and listeners have responded warmly: a solid mark resting on a decent body of verdicts, enough to take seriously without treating it as final.

It asks for a particular kind of attention. This is not material to have on while answering email. It suits a walk, a long drive at dusk, or an evening with nothing else scheduled. Anyone drawn to myth, landscape and the language of the sacred will know within ten minutes whether it is for them.

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