Autumn Winter 2021
Editorial
The challenges now facing humans, nature and planet are obvious and dangerous. Thinking about them – as everyone with an ounce of feeling for life beyond our individual existences should be doing from here on in – can be dispiriting. But art, including good writing, is nothing if it can’t explore both spirit and depths of experience. Even in times of crisis, artists can reveal aspects of shared experience that may empower readers, listeners, viewers through the spark of imagination.
That’s part of what Northwords Now aims to do, through the breadth of new writing we reveal in each new issue, making connections across Scotland and the wider, gl... read more
Honouring the legacy of GMB
by James Robertson
Image: Detail of portrait of GMB in the Braes Hotel, Stromness. Oil on canvas by Alexander Moffat.
Day of the Last Star
by Howard Wright
Image: Andromeda Galaxy, as seen from Kattfjord, northern Norway - Erling Sverre Nordøy
