Poetry

Hansel Cooperative Press
ISBN: 9780993224249
Translated into Fair Isle dialect by Anne Sinclair
Illustrated by Lucy Wheeler

The Finn who has lost her words. The Strange One who is leaving for the New World. The Warden who tends to the kelp forests in a drowned future.

Written in English and the Fair Isle dialect, Never Still Nivver Still tells the stories of three women, living in three different times. Coming, going, staying, they give voice to their part of the Isle’s own long, long story of change. For Fair Isle has never been still – fast or slow, change is the nature of this small green rock rising up out of the restless sea.

‘The poetry is alive with sounds, smells and movement – the very essence of isle and ocean … evoking a powerful sense of lives lived at the margins.’ John Cumming

‘The translation of this fascinating poem into the taut Shetland tongue – with its Fair Isle vowels and variations – strengthens both the fey quality and the musicality of the text.’ Christine De Luca

The Hedgehog Press
ISSN: 2631-4126

‘Much in the same way that a very small amount of explosive can cover a lot of ground, the four poems in this micro-pamphlet have managed to have the equivalent impact.’
Mat Riches Sphinx

HappenStance Press
ISBN: 9781910131480

‘… the unsettling atmosphere is supplied (almost) entirely by the dance of slippery language. That’s language’s gift and curse: to give, and enlighten; to withhold, and to frighten!’
Charlotte Gann Sphinx

‘This poem tells a story of futuristic times after a presumed catastrophe. The central character is a ‘dirty hoarder’ who has become a ‘Dragon Lady’, a keeper of ‘treasure’.’
Jane Freer Sphinx

‘A slip of a book, this nevertheless packs a punch! Worth reading several times to get the full measure of what is going on. Chilling.’
Helen Grant Amazon review