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Walking in her Footsteps
Finally, I could visit Stronsay, Barbara Fea's home island. A few months ago, I met some very kind folk from Stronsay who invited me to visit and to take a look at some of the locations in Barbara Fea’s story. If you’re here for the first
Rag Stones has almost sold out!
I've got a small display at the Sanday Heritage Centre that talks a little bit about the history of the island's dykes and shares a couple of the stories from my book. I was very pleased when they got in touch to say they'd
The Holms of Ire
I'm nearing the end of the Granta course on Nature Writing and I've given myself the challenge of writing a sequence of poems that connect to the Holms of Ire, the two tidal islands north of Burness on Sanday. Coincidentally, there's some problem with
Why write into the void?
After letters to politicians, porridge, I write poems. Send the exile cat photos and stories of sheep. We exchange gifs and then we toll the dead. Entire movements murdered and monsters martyred. I can feel the privilege of being able to look away To sleep and even wake without annihilation.