The Art of Translation RODY GORMAN describes his participation in the Poet to Poet project in Israel and Cove Park I WAS INVITED to take part in the Poet to Poet translation project in Israel and Cove Park by Loch Long, Argyll in April and May 2007. Under this project, selected poets work in pairs […]

GEORGINA COBURN puts the pertinent questions to MURDO MACDONALD, Professor of History of Scottish Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and leader of the Window to the West research team

IAN STEPHEN had planned to run the log of his sail on an Sulaire from Stornoway via the International Artists Worksop on Tanera Mor to the Moray Flotilla as a weblog on Northings, but technology and attention to sailing Scotland’s potentially treacherous seas intervened. Instead, we present Ian’s log in its entirety here as a downloadable pdf file.

JOHN BURNS looks at the burgeoning world-wide lure of the blog.

SUE WILSON samples the creative opportunities on offer at Glencanisp House Writers Retreats in Assynt

PATSY DYER, an accredited storyteller, writer and award winning garden designer, describes her work in Auchindrain Museum and on an associated visit to Slovakia.

MORAG McGILL sounds off on the official neglect of indigenous writing in Orkney, and celebrates a step in the right direction.

The launch of her latest book, ‘Women Of The Highlands’, to a packed Waterstones in Inverness in December marked another memorable chapter in the 46-year publishing career of writer KATHARINE STEWART. Peter Urpeth caught up with her for Northings

As part of our continuing association with PROFESSOR KENNETH WHITE – which started in 2005 with his appointment as HI~Arts’ first International Fellow – we are very pleased to publish for the first time the text of Prof. White’s annual lecture at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2006 (EIBF).

PETER URPETH wrote on the work of the late Torquil Macrath for an early issue of Northings in 2003