Poets from, and inspired by, Orkney.
Ingrid has created and sold pictures. She has written and had her work published in a variety of places. But until now, she has never shown them together. This beautiful book presents her paintings and poetry side by side in all the intensely felt moods of Orkney. By Ingrid Grieve. Gloss soft bound.
Poems based on fieldwork by the University of Aberdeen's School of Biological Sciences researching seabird and marine mammal populations in Orkney and off the coast of North-East Scotland.
Edited by Sarah Neely, foreword by Ali Smith. Paperback.
being a Descriptive Catalogue of the Bibliotheck of Westray. By Lydia Harris. Paperback.
New writing to celebrate the Centenary of the birth of George Mackay Brown (1921-1996). Paperback.
A collection of nursery rhymes from Orkney. Compiled by Margaret T Flaws. Hardback.
By Myra Shearer. This collection of poems was written over a period of many years. They have been divided into two sections; 1. Miscellaneous poems of various topics and 2. Poems dedicated to the many pet cats I have homed and loved (written after they died). Paperback booklet.
Ten writers from the Orkney Voices group staged a show at the 2022 St Magnus Festival exploring the Orkney witch trials and surrounding events and culture. By Orkney Voices. Paperback booklet.
An anthology of Scottish Island Poems. In Other Worlds editor Stewart Conn has sought poems to set readers' hearts racing through a sharpening of memory or in opening new vistas and evoking new worlds and states of mind from the Orkney and Shetlands to the Hebridies, to Mull and Iona, Arran and Ailsa Craig and more. Edited by Stewart Conn. Paperback.
Writeen fae Orkney Voices. Aal this you'll finnd here in poetry, prose an drama, renga, haiku an cinquains. Thir's light an dark, a lot o whit wae like, some o whit wae don't. But aal written wae a love o Orkney an a delight in Orcadian language an wirds. The George Mackay Brown Fellowship. Paperback.
Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind. A science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. By...
A collection of poems & writings celebrating the centenary of George Mackay Brown (1921-1996). Edited by Jim Mackintosh & Paul S Philippou. Paperback.