‘Arrogant smeegin’ prompts Whalsay student’s dialect poem
Whalsay woman Chloe Irvine has been studying journalism in Edinburgh for the last four years. To mark World Poetry Day at the weekend she wrote…
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Bulter award deadline looming
The promoters of the Rhoda Bulter Award are reminding anyone planning to take part in this year’s competition that there are just over three weeks…
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Bards are back and speaking bruck
A new round of the Bards in da Bog poetry competition is being launched – with an anti-litter theme.
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Harding plucks new poetic string at Word Play
Comedian, broadcaster and folk singer Mike Harding has added poetry to his talents and his latest book of poems, The Connemara Cantos, published in September,
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A poem for the morning after
It is a poem about reconciliation – and some might say its release has come not a moment too soon.
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Bards’ work to appear on da street
Shoppers on Commercial Street will soon be able to enjoy a peerie poem or two thanks to a new celebration of Shetland dialect.
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Review: Hidden gems inspire Back From Beyond show
From rousing fiddles to crunchy guitars, heartfelt harmonies to clever poetry, Back from Beyond was an eclectic celebration of Shetland’s charms. Visitors to Mareel on…
READ FULL STORYBog poems go on display
The Bards in the Bog project kicked off in earnest this week, as the first poems were framed for display on public toilet doors around…
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Shetland-based poet Jen Hadfield has been shortlisted in the poetry category of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards which are run in partnership with…
READ FULL STORYPoets launch their latest selections
A wide variety of myths and legends were explored last Friday night in Lerwick Library when national writer James Robertson and Shetland’s own Gordon Dargie…
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Poets are being invited to submit work that will go on display in Shetland’s public toilets in a new “Bards in the Bog” project. Of…
READ FULL STORYRobertson is star attraction at poetry reading and book launch
Acclaimed author and poet James Robertson will take part in a poetry reading and book launch in Shetland Library on Friday. The event will feature…
READ FULL STORYHunt is on for bog standard poetry
Poets are being invited to submit work that will go on display in Shetland’s public toilets in a new “Bards in the Bog” project. Of…
READ FULL STORYLiterary triumph for poet Hadfield
Burra-based poet Jen Hadfield received a welcome shock this week when she found out she had won the TS Eliot Prize for poetry for her…
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