Today I am using a poem by our National Bard, earlier this week we published an article on Robert Burns, so it seemed fitting to use one of the poems mentioned.
Poetry Corner
Robert Burns & the Laki Volcano of 1783
“Death was everywhere. But it seems it came not in the guise of a guy in a hood, but a volcano.”
The Laird O’ Yarpha: Episode 4
“On another occasion Mansie “foregathered” with an itinerant preacher. Him he considered fair game, and resolved, for the honour of the parish, to put down.”
Poetry Corner: We’ll Meet Again Don’t Know Where Don’t Know When
“The flower that bloomed
Within my heart;
Came from no mav’rick
Seedling upstart.”
Styr Pendoul: Towers of Trying Times
” With these sculptures I am making a statement about the darkness of times in the circle of life.”
Poetry Corner: Them and Us by Bernie Bell
“If East is East
And West is West
Then where, my dear, is here?”
Poetry Corner
A poem written in the wake of Brexit
The Laird O’ Yarpha: Episode 3
“And he looked round him with an air of triumph. as much as to say, “There’s as muckle sense beneath some folk’s bannets as there is aneath ither folk’s hats.”
Poetry Corner: Swallow by Andrew Velzian
“Gulls would circle the herring fleet diving deep…”
Exhibition in Thurso for Orkney Artist
Exhibition of new work by Orkney based artist Mirran Hall
