Pauline Prior Pitt

Pauline Prior Pitt

Pauline Prior-Pitt lives on the island of North Uist. She has always been a verse speaker but didn't begin writing poetry until her late thirties; writing in secret for seven years. She has published seven collections and four pamphlets. “North Uist Sea Poems” won the 2006 Callum Macdonald Award.

Pauline's latest collection, “Be an Angel” is a selected works. Alternately funny and poignant, the poems beautifully reflect the preoccupations of women's lives, covering birth, death, and everything in between – including the mysterious relationship between men and crumbs!

Her one woman shows attract sell out audiences in Festivals and she has appeared on
Radio 3's Words and Music; Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Pick of the Week, With Great
Pleasure, several times on Poetry Please; and on Channel 4 Television.

For the last 17 years Pauline has been the voluntary Literature Officer at Taigh Chearsabagh Museum and Arts Centre. She founded “Last Thursdays” monthly poetry evenings, runs the Saturday Creative Writing Workshops, and curates the “Poetry Cafe Cards”scheme.

She is a former Poet Partner with the Scottish Poetry Library, and a registered poet with the Live Literature Scotland Scheme which funds writers for events in Scotland.

For information about how to buy books and to read some of her poems, visit Pauline Prior-Pitt.com

Pàdruig MacIllechiar/Peter Kerr

Pàdruig MacIllechiar/Peter Kerr

..is an island poet reclining on a seaweed-upholstered chaise-longue of gneiss with work published in the Uist Arts Association Writer’s Group pamphlets From The Water’s Edge (2012), Shorelines (2013), A Skein of Words (2014), Seawords (2015), and Leafing Through 2016).
His work was displayed at the StAnza event An Archipelago of Poems (2015) and it features in the Poems for All Sma buiks, wee poems and Edinburgh Inch series.
He created the innovative poems in place poetry trail in North Uist using QR Codes fixed to fenceposts.

Collaborations include work with photographer Jörg Waste on The Island Spirit (2017) and with film-maker Jim Hope as part of An Lanntair’s Building Our Islands project which featured his poetry synchronised to Jim’s film and projected on walls at the Girnal in Rodel and the Boatman’s Tower in Stornoway.

He was guest poet at the inaugural Stornowords event in 2016 and had the great honour and enormous pleasure of reading with Ian Stephen at the subsequent House-warming event in An Lanntair. He has self-published two collections as eBooks: Cnoc and Loch (2014) and ...there will be pauses just like this… (2015).

Peter Kerr

Writing blog: https://berneraybardachd.wordpress.com/

Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/padruigmacillechiar/