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Tom Morton.
Book £5.99. CD £11.99.
108 pages,
illustrated, softback. Tom Morton is a writer, broadcaster
and spare-time crofter based in Northmavine, Shetland.
Christine
De Luca. Book £6.50. Tape £1.50.
57 pages,
hardback. Christine De Luca was born and brought up in shetland,
spending her formative years in Waas (Walls) on the west side of
the mainland. Like many islanders she had to leave to continue
her education and find work: something of this severing is detectable
in her writing.
Christine
De Luca. Book £8.99. Tape £2.50.
Christine
De Luca was born and brought up in Shetland, spending her formative
years in Waas (Walls) on the west side of the mainland. She
now lives and works in the Edinburgh area. In 1996 she won
the Shetland Literary Prize with her first poetry collection Voes
and Sounds.
Jim
Moncrieff - £6.00.
78 pages,
softback. Jim Moncrieff's poetry, written over a span of thirty
years, has only recently begun to be published in 'The New Shetlander'
magazine. This first collection contains some of those poems,
as well as one or two older personal favorites. However, the
majority of the poems are recent writings which reflect on landmark
moments from his life and the vagaries of the Shetland seasons which
blur the edge of change.
Edited
by Laurence Graham and Brian Smith - £7.95.
83 Pages,
illustrated, softback. Christopher Grieve, "Hugh MacDiarmid",
spent nine tremendously creative years in Whalsay in Shetland, with
Valda his wife and Michael his son. In spite of poverty, ill-health
and isolation MacDiarmid wrote half his life's work there.
This
book, the first devoted exclusively to MacDiarmid's Shetland period,
gives vivid glimpses of the poet and his family. It draws
on letters, poems, photographs and personal impressions. Much
of it is based on material gathered from the Grieves' friends, and
the island folk they lived among.
It throws
new light on a complex and controversial figure widely regarded
as one of the greatest poets of the century.
Lollie
Graham - £7.95.
Shetland
has produced fine poets during the past century, and Lollie Graham
is one of the best of them. He uses poetry to celebrate what's
admirable in Shetland and the world.
Lollie
Graham was born in Stromfirth in 1924. When he was two, the
family moved to one of the new croft holdings at Veensgarth, Tingwall.
Except for four years at Edinburgh University and Moray House College,
and two years as headmaster at Urafirth, he has lived there ever
since. He has taught at the Anderson Institute, Scalloway
Junior Secondary and finally as headmaster of Gott Primary School.
He has been a part-time crofter most of his life.
He was
Joint Editor of the New Shetlander 1956-1988, editor of Shetland
Crofters 1986, co-editor of MacDiarmid in Shetland 1992, Hjaltland
1993, and a Shetland Anthology 1998.
This selection gathers
together verse written from 1945 to the present day. It reflects
in humorous, serious and satiric vein some of the highlights (and
low points) of life here last century: it's joys and sorrows, its
characters and comedies, and its many echoes that still haunt us
from the past.
Christian
S Tait - £8.95.
Christian
S Tait was born (1940) and brought up in Lerwick, and was educated
at the Anderson Educational Institute, then Aberdeen University
and the Open university. She married Harry in 1961 and they
moved to Trondra with their family in 1975. After teaching
music (Primary and Secondary) in Lerwick from 1967 to 1987, she
became a Primary Teacher and taught at Hamnavoe Primary School.
She began to write in 1987 and retired in 1995 in order to have
more time for writing, music, gardening, family and friends.
This, her second book, is her personal response to family letters
written from the battle-fronts of the First World War.
Christine
De Luca. Book £10.00. Book & CD £12.50.
64 pages,
illustrated, hardback. This is the third collection of poetry
in English and Shetland dialect by Christine De Luca. She
continues to draw on her Shetland heritage whilst exploring language
in general.
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