Summer / Autumn 2025
As regular readers have come to expect and enjoy, this issue includes work by writers whose names are well known and others you may never have heard of before. In that way, I hope this shares some of the element of surprise that comes with editing Northwords Now – finding poetry or prose that sings from the page.
There’s a Faroese flavour to some of the early pages, thanks to Jennifer Morag Henderson’s account of links between Norn – the old Shetlandic tongue – and Faroese, and how this has been used by the contemporary Faroese folk-rock band Hamradun. Following on, there’s work by Torshavn-based classical musician and poet Daniel ... read more
