Mailboats - Orkney

Morag MacInnes - Poet

"I came back to Orkney five years ago after working as a lecturer and community artist for twenty five years – most of those spent in England. The islands I remember from my childhood and adolescence have changed a lot – though I came back every summer to visit family, I was in holiday mode. Now I have time to pay more attention to what’s really going on here and to write about it. I’ve published a few short stories over the years in various anthologies; most recently, I’ll be in the George Mackay Brown Foundation Anthology published by the Orcadian, and in Two Ravens’ Anthology of Highlands and Islands Womens’ Writing, Cleave . My Orcadian poem sequence Alias Isobel, published by Hansel, will be out in April.

I'm interested in voices and identities. There are many of them in Orkney, so I should be kept pretty busy disentangling them all..."