Discussion
Persistence of Vision: Blue Black Permanent
“For Tait, making the bigger picture… didn’t mean compromising the poetry. For her, cinema itself was essentially a poetic medium”
– Sarah Neely on the enduring legacy of Margaret Tait’s life & work
5/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #filmmaking #cinema #20thcentury
A Deep, Owld Anchor
“Even writing about Nicaragua or New York, Cuba or my adopted home of Glasgow, it is with Shetlandic eyes that I see the world, and with Shetlandic ears that I hear it”
—Christie Williamson on da wirds an wyes o spaekin in Shaetlan
2/8
Auld rock meets Nordic Noir
“the idea of the ‘Nordic’ is constructed through the naming of the landscape rather than geography itself”
– Hanne Tange & Gunhild Agger turn a Danish gaze on Shetlandic Scandinavian-ness
3/8
Persistence of Vision: Blue Black Permanent
“For Tait, making the bigger picture… didn’t mean compromising the poetry. For her, cinema itself was essentially a poetic medium”
– Sarah Neely on the enduring legacy of Margaret Tait’s life & work
5/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #filmmaking #cinema #20thcentury
The New Orkney Language Literature
Harry Josephine Giles looks at
“the minoritisation of the language, perpetuated not just through literary snobbery but also through an education system that beat out Orcadian with physical force”
& a literary rebirth
6/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
