Orkney
Creative Lives & Creative Partnerships
August 2022 Press Release Culture Collective announces partnership with Age Scotland Orkney and creative practitioner Gabrielle Barnby Creative Lives & Creative Partnerships Gabrielle Barnby has received funding from Culture Collective to continue her creative partnership with Age Scotland Orkney. The new project Creative Lives & Creative Partnerships seeks to further develop and expand a range […]
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Red Homespun stockings itch. With the least feeling of warmth they rub my legs like a bear’s skin. Although I have not met or touched a real bear, I know they exist: white in the arctic where the whales swim, and brown in the forests where the trees prick the sky. I have homespun stockings. […]
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Salt on My Skin Sarah Kennedy Norquoy Salt on My Skin chronicles Sarah Norquoy’s blossoming love of sea swimming. She invites the reader into her life with humour and enthusiasm, and rewards them with insight into a journey of personal change. Her prose flows rapidly with the warmth of good conversation with a friend. This […]
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Selected Poems Kathleen Jamie Last December I found myself with time to kill in Edinburgh. I sought out the Scottish Poetry Library. A low doorway opened into a light filled space where shelves of poems waited. There was an atmosphere of communion, of wholeness and freedom. I picked up Kathleen Jamie’s collection. It’s range continues […]
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I picked up the last issue of Living Orkney on Thursday. Inside its cover were many familiar things. Some items do become familiar to the point of becoming invisible, like wellington boots marooned by the back door all summer until October when they are picked up again, like the smart woollen coat worn when it’s […]
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