Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland, Jen Hadfield

Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland, Jen HadfieldNew Paperback A stunning love letter of life in Shetland by Jen Hadfield, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. In her late twenties, poet Jen Hadfield moved to Shetland to make a new life. Here, in a rugged constellation of islands known for their isolation and drama, she found a place teeming with life, where rare seabirds blow in on Atlantic gales, an ancient language thrives, and a close knit community is the beating heart of an entire world. In Storm

providing an intriguing counterpoint to Wellington's operations in the Iberian Peninsula

A second chapter looks at ponds as ancient natural habitats that have existed for millennia on the earth’s surface

there is healing

but at first she feels as ill-suited to Faerie as she did to the mortal world-how could an unassuming scholar like herself pass for a queen

Discover the wonderful world of birdwatching with wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin - winner of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing 2022 and presenter of BBC documentary Hamza: Strictly Birds of Prey

But watch out for the stickleback who will steal your catch

including Peter Jackson's blockbuster films of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and the highly anticipated TV series The Rings of Power

we are hurtling into a far more diverse global future

unashamedly frank and unmistakably hers

the seasons kept on turning

when the birds leave behind their precious down for the woman to gather

Jenkins teaches readers to see the world anew