Flout 

A poetry pamphlet inspired by Shetland landscape and folklore published  by HappenStance Press in March, 2015. 

Poems in this pamphlet have been published in the Edinburgh Review, Northwords Now; The New Shetlander,  Southlight 15 and the online Glasgow Review of Books. Also in the ezines Ink, Sweat and Tears, And Other Poems and in 'Penning Powers' on the Scottish P.E.N. website and 'I'm Coming with you' a (S) PEN anthology; 'My Love, the Shetland Trowie'  is in 'Mildly Erotic Love Poems, Volume 2' published by Emma Press, Jan, 2016;'Da Mirrie Dancers' appears on the Cloud Appreciation Society's website.

One of the poems, 'The Child of Breckon Sands' was set to music, for  voice and piano by Marisa Sharon Hartanto and performed by mezzo-soprano, Alison Wells as part of the Young Composers' Masterclass event at the St Magnus Festival, Orkney, 2013. Another poem 'Ayre' inspired a dance piece choreographed by Matthew Hawkins and performed by Platinum at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 2015.

Read sample poems:  The Wind's Rant

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See:  HappenStance Press           Out of Print.

Publisher's blurb: HappenStance blog  And Another Thing Poetry can do.  

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'Glass Works' (Cat's Pyjamas Publications, 2005). Shortlisted for the Callum MacDonald Award, 2006.

This pamphlet was inspired by observing glass-making through to finished art work by students at Edinburgh College of Art and is illustrated by photographs taken by the author or by the students themselves of their glass art.

Read sample poem:    Blue

  See : Scottish Pamphlet Poetry

£6    Out of print.

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Most notable single poem publications:

'Lilas' is published in Aesthetica (shortlisted in the poetry competition), 2023;

'Clara the Rhinoceros' 2nd prize winner of the Wales Poetry Award, will be published in Poetry Wales, winter edition of 2023.

'Sanday' was commissioned by the St Magnus Festival, Orkney, 2016 on its 40th Anniversary and celebrates the composer, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who founded the festival. The poem is published in the festival programme.

'Meadow Lane Riffs'  on the Scottish Poetry Library's website, 2005. (Selected as 'one of the Best 20 Poems published by a writer living in Scotland during 2004'.)

'Blue' in  A Skein of Geese (Shed Press), the 101 Poets anthology at the StAnza Festival, 2007, published in 2008.

'Your Voice' was short-listed by the judge Penelope Shuttle at the Strokestown Poetry Festival, 2009.

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Other Most recent Poems published in Literary Magazines:

'I know I should not trust the sea' , 'Reading the Bones', 'Inside the Whale Museum' and 'Touch' published in the spring issue of Northwords Now, May 2023.

'Ziphius or Xiphius' (a sea-monster from the Map of Ortelius) is published in The Honest Ulsterman, online March, 2022.

Extracts from 'Berlin Umbrella' are published on the online The Oxford School of Poetry Review, March 2019.

'The Rhoider' published in The Rialto, issue 91, Autumn, 2018;

'Hanmer's Agate'  published in the Europe-themed issue of  Magma in April, 2018;

3 poems inspired by St Kilda are published in the Glasgow Review of Books, Dec, 2017, also online.

A full-page spread of 6 poems inspired by St Kilda are published in Northwords Now, Nov, 2017, also online.

'Love Song to Pelagic Fish' and 'Tetanus Infantum or the Eight Day Death'  published in Butcher's Dog 5 in May, 2015;

'Snowed In'  online in  Ink, Sweat and Tears ezine as part of the 12 Days of Christmas series, published January, 2015.

'Stac an Armin, St Kilda' in  Orbis, spring, 2013;

Stephanie's poems have been published in The Edinburgh Review, the Glasgow Review, Magma, Northwords Now, Orbis, The Red Wheelbarrow, Poetry Scotland, Quattrocentro, New Writing Scotland 21 (ASLS), The New Shetlander, Poetry Wales, The New Welsh Review and Writing Women.

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Poems published in Anthologies

'Give me your Hand' will be published in  'Write to be Counted' blogspot and hard copy as a fund-raising for P.E.N.  Also selected for the 'My Time' Voluntary Arts project.

'Ivor Cutler' is in 'Scotia  Extremis' an online anthology appearing over 2016 to celebrate Scottish icons. It was selected to be included in the print version of the anthology to be launched in March, 2019. 

'Razzle Dazzle Cabaret'  is in the anthology 'Signal' (Edinburgh Festival of Art, 2016) to commemorate the Dazzle ships painted by women during WW1 .

'A Painter and his Son'  commended by the judge John Glenday in the William Soutar  competition, 2015 is published in an ebook via Perth Library website. 

'How to be a Fox'  published online in 'Deseeded' Vol 3, an anthology in celebration of the late Julia Darling, edited by Degna Smith, end May, 2015. View https://issuu.com/deseeded/docs/deseeded_vol._3_-_julia/5?e=0

'Eynhallow Sound' and 'Two Gifts' published in 'A Place Beyond Belief', poems written during the St Magnus Festival Orkney Writers' Course, 2013, published online  

http://www.gmbfellowship.org.uk/publications/place-beyond-belief

'Veriditas'  published in forthcoming celebration of Hildegard de Bingen, co-publication by Wyvern Works and Thesaura Naturae as part of the Poetry on the Lake Festival, 2012;

'Stac an Armin' in Bestiario (Wyvern Works, Italy, 2012) the 12th Poetry on the Lake Festival;

'Wee Nippy Sweeties' in Clockworks (left in carriages on the Glasgow subway), 2012;

'The Hand that Sees'  in Reflections on Lake Orta (Wyvern Works, Italy, 2010), the 10th anniversary anthology of the Poetry on the Lake Festival;

'Blue' in  A Skein of Geese (Shed Press), the 101 Poets anthology at the StAnza Festival, 2007, published in 2008.

Stephanie's poems have been published in numerous anthologies published by Cinnamon Press, Freight Books amongst others.

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