The Storylands Sessions
Setting up a new event is like taking a running jump off a pier. You don’t know if the water’s going to […]
Tag: poetry
A Sense of Place
What happens when we pay close attention to nature? A Sense of Place, about my residency with the Cairngorms National Park, first appeared […]
Stay at Home!
On May 1st I got this email: “I am putting together a collection of poems and short prose by children’s authors in […]
The High Tongue
It’s the Cairngorms Nature at Home Big 10 Days! This WAS going to be the Cairngorms Nature Big Weekend and I WAS […]
Wonder of Wonders
Last week I described my first outing with the Health Walk Group in Glen Tanar. As Writer in Residence for the Cairngorms […]
National Poetry Day in the Cairngorms
Hooray! It’s National Poetry Day today! For my five years at Kingussie High School library, this was always one of the highlights […]
Every Language Welcome
Namaste! Most of you probably recognise the word, some of you use it in yoga classes and some may even know what […]
Poetry in Practice
One of my great hopes for this year as Writer in Residence at the Cairngorms National Park was to dedicate more time […]
Cairngorms Staff Away Day
Staff away days can be notorious for press-ganging resistant folk through ‘team-building’ exercises like tying Betty from accounts to intern Joey’s back […]
The Nature Writer & The Big Surprise
When I arrive at Speyside High School the welcome from Lesley Williamson, Head of English is warm, though a little surprised. She […]