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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