Join us for a virtual poetry evening MC’d by Pauline Prior-Pitt
Special guest Jen Hadfield is a renowned poet and visual artist who has made her home in Shetland. Her first collection, Almanacs, won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003.
She is the youngest female poet to be awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize with her second collection Ni-No Place in 2008. Her third collection Byssus was published by Picador in 2014
Jen’s poems and visual art are based on her experience of living, working and traveling in Shetland, the Outer Hebrides, and Canada. Her themes include home and belonging, wildness and subsistence, landscape and language, and the Shetland dialect.
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Save the date:
Poetry Evenings
Thursday October 29th @ 7.30pm
An attempt to have a Zoom session with participants reading published poems on the theme of MAGIC. What is magical to you?
Book Week Scotland November 16th – Saturday 21st
Thursday November 19th @7.30pm
A virtual evening with Gerda Stevenson and her husband Aonghas MacNeacail.
Other events are planned for this week but have not yet been finalised, so watch this space!