70 pages. In Weather Blinks, Olive M Ritch revisits incidents, stories and impressions from her upbringing on Orkney to explore what it means to be an islander. These poems drill into identity and belonging, and the personal and political, to describe people whose existence is interdependent yet – like the islands – on the edge of the mainstream.
70 pages. In Weather Blinks, Olive M Ritch revisits incidents, stories and impressions from her upbringing on Orkney to explore what it means to be an islander. These poems drill into identity and belonging, and the personal and political, to describe people whose existence is interdependent yet – like the islands – on the edge of the mainstream.