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Wordplay 2006 |
Peter Urpeth is Writing Development Coordinator for Hi-Arts. He lives and works on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Peter Urpeth's first novel, Far Inland (Polygon), was published in April 2006. In 2002 he was awarded a Scottish Arts Council New Writers Bursary and previously worked as a journalist and editor.
Jane Routh's new book Teach Yourself Mapmaking is published in September and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for the autumn. The book includes poems which she wrote while visiting Shetland's 2005 Wordplay festival. Maps and charts are a recurrent motif in these poems which journey from Shetland and unknown waters to the landscapes of home.
