Alias IsobelA third chapbook, Alias Isobel by Morag MacInnes was launched in Orkney, May 2008. The poems, written in the Orkney dialect of a century ago, create a loose narrative around the story of Isobel Gunn. She disguised herself as a man so that she could work for the Hudson Bay Company and was only found out when she gave birth to a baby! The pamphlet is hand-finished, and includes wonderful illustrations by John Cumming, complementing the poems and evoking the location and era. It is also published in an edition of 300 numbered copies, available from Porteous Brae Gallery, Tam McPhail's bookshop, the Waterfront, Café Hoy, Orcadian shop and the Shetland Times Bookshop or the author, priced £5. |