Amazing colours, even in the rain. My jeans are over the hotel radiator drying out, hopefully in time for my reading here in Stornoway. One hour to go, and I've yet to make an set-list...
For the past five years, Shetland's landscape and language have persistently influenced my poetry and visual art. Of my two books published by Bloodaxe, Almanacs was written in Shetland and the Western Isles in 2002 thanks to a bursary from the Scottish Arts Council, and it won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Nigh-No-Place, written in Canada and Shetland, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2007 and won the T.S.Eliot Prize for poetry in 2008. Liturgical rhythms underpinned many of those poems about place, home, ecology, space – an idiomatic mythology of the here-and-now.
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I've often wondered how poets decide what poems to read and in what order. Is it simply a case of what 'feels right' or is there more to it?
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