£10.00
Expanded and revised from Andrew McNeillie’s essay ‘The Last Surviving King of Elmet, or Wildness Regained’ that introduced two shows by Norman Ackroyd: Just be a Poet (The Fine Art Society, London, 2016) and The Western Shore – from Shetland to Co. Cork (The Verey Gallery, Eton College 27 April – 10 September 2017).
Expanded and revised from Andrew McNeillie’s essay ‘The Last Surviving King of Elmet, or Wildness Regained’ that introduced two shows by Norman Ackroyd: Just be a Poet (The Fine Art Society, London, 2016) and The Western Shore – from Shetland to Co. Cork (The Verey Gallery, Eton College 27 April – 10 September 2017).
(Clutag Press 2017)
Ian Niall was the pen name of John McNeillie (1916-2002). Between them they wrote more than forty books, over a period of as many years, from 1939 when at twenty-two John McNeillie published Wigtown Ploughman: Part of His Life, with Putnam of London and New York, a Scottish classic, a book that raised a national controversy, leading to housing reform. A new paperback edition, edited and introduced by Andrew McNeillie, is due from the Edinburgh publisher Birlinn in Autumn 2012.
‘I can remember quite clearly now a recuperating soldier singing me Gaelic songs but I can also remember small, insignificant things – the sound of a porridge pot bubbling; talk on a wet Sunday when the hills were veiled in mist; the clatter and laughter of dancers on the tiled floor of the kitchen when the vigour of their gyrations set up a draught that made the oil-lamp smoke.’
Spring 2009
Archipelago 2:3 £15.00
No. 6 - ring-net by Garry MacKenzie £12.50 – £15.00
No. 5 – THE GREEN ROOM by Kathleen Jamie £12.50
No. 4 – MENHENET by Robert Minhinnick £12.50 – £15.00
No. 3 – WALLS ARE MADE TO FALL DOWN by Kerry Hardie £12.50 – £15.00
