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
