After 10 years of publication, 'Northings' (the monthly arts e-magazine for the Highlands & Islands) closed down in 2013 and is archived here. High Life Highland is pleased to enable this extensive body of work to remain accessible to the public. Please note, though, that material will not be updated or added.

Features

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Jason Rose

15 Oct 2008 in Features, Festival, Highland, Writing

JASON ROSE is standing down after five years at the helm of the Inverness Book Festival. We look back on his experiences in establishing the festival as an annual fixture in the calendar

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Stromness Renga Group

15 Sep 2008 in Features, Orkney, Writing

MORAG MACINNES reflects on the opening session in a new renga group in Stromness

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Ron McMillan

21 Jul 2008 in Features, Shetland, Writing

SUE WILSON meets the author of the first full-length travelogue of Shetland since the Victorian era

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Mailboats

16 Jul 2008 in Features, Orkney, Shetland, Visual Arts & Crafts, Writing

PAMELA BEASANT reports on a fascinating collaborative project from the Northern Isles

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Three Voices

5 May 2008 in Features, Orkney, Shetland, Writing

MORAG MACINNES considers the poetic identities revealed in the work of three women poets based in Orkney and Shetland

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Feature by Kenny Mathieson

Ian Stephen

1 Apr 2008 in Features, Outer Hebrides, Visual Arts & Crafts, Writing

IAN STEPHEN has been involved in both of the Triangle Trust International Artists Workshops held so far in the Highlands & Islands, once as an artist as once as resident boatman. The Lewis-based writer, artist and sailor sets the scene for this month’s Three Islands Workshop on the island of Hoy

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Robert Alan Jamieson

22 Feb 2008 in Features, Shetland, Writing

IAN STEPHEN considers an audio visual performance from Shetland by poet Robert Alan Jamieson as perceived from another island

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Feature by Giles Sutherland

Hamish Henderson

16 Dec 2007 in Features, Writing

GILES SUTHERLAND considers the life of work of Hamish Henderson in the light of a new biography by Timothy Neat

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Ouessant Festival

20 Nov 2007 in Features, Writing

IAN STEPHEN reports on a gathering of Scottish island writers in Brittany that will have ongoing repercussions.

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Jacqui Clark

29 Sep 2007 in Features, Shetland, Writing

KAREN EMSLIE considers the work of award-winning Shetland playwright Jacqui Clark

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