Imaginary, mythic characters, larger than life, attractive and scary, loom eerily (the Njuggle and the Trowie, for example). But most of the all it’s the lonely landscapes that call, the far northern places where the poet encounters herself. In Steekit Stimna “Only the intense blue / of lochs, the long voes, / skies so pale they are transparent…”
Where else but the Shetlands could you juggle with place names like “the Peerie, the Muckle, / the Mid Heads – Yesness”, “the Kirn o’ Scroo“, and “the jagged fins of the Slithers”?
“Here is a poet whose work flouts any ordinary expectations.” Helena Nelson
FLOUT Reviews:
“A strong and focused debut.” – Scottish Review of Books.
“Flout, if it is not a dance, should be one. These poems dance. I swear I could feel the movement throughout. Flout is unusual, deep, musical, beautiful, and above all, true. There’s no posturing – just a real voice saying sometimes unreal things. It’s rare to see a chapbook so much at one with itself and its world.” – Enda Coyle-Greene
“I’ve chosen the poem “The Njuggle” from Stephanie’s pamphlet – (a “demon water horse or pony found in Shetland and Orkney folklore”.) … the use of transformation in poetry is one I’m interested in at the minute … I’ve been reading so much Ovid recently, I can’t help thinking of it when I read this poem.” – Kim Moore
Extract from Kim Moore’s Blog. For more see https://kimmoorepoet.wordpress.com/tag/stephanie-green/
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![]() | Stephanie GreenStephanie Green is English/Irish, born in Sussex and has lived in Edinburgh since 2000, via Wales where she lived for 15 years and became a fluent Welsh speaker. Her most recent pamphlet Flout, published by HappenStance, 2015, is inspired by Shetland landscape, folklore and culture. It comes out of her love of remote places with a different culture to her own. She has had several drama/documentary scripts, including one on the Partition of India, broadcast on BBC Schools, Radio. |