Writer, broadcaster and food anthropologist Ghillie Basan is coming to the Orkney International...
Tag - OISF 2019
Dreaming of Mars
It’s just on fifty years since the first footstep on the Moon. At the time it seemed that the Moon...
The darkness of the winter solstice
Winter stayed well into April, and as I dug holes for apple trees T. S. Eliot swirled in my head:...
Eddington’s universe
Whenever the poet George Mackay Brown reorganised his library, getting rid of some of the...
Walking with Ravens and Wonder
Soaring. That is the word. On top of the world, or so it seems, above the busy valleys below, side...
The plants that heal
What do swallows stuffed with eggs, arsenic and lemon have to do with herbal remedies and beauty...