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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Picador

ISBN: 9781529038033

RRP: £10.99

PAGES: 368

PUBLICATION DATE:
April 3, 2025

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Storm Pegs

By Jen Hadfield

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 Pegs, Hadfield transports us to the islands as a local, introducing us to the remote and beautiful archipelago where she has made her home, and shows us new ways of living at the edge.

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Jen Hadfield

Jen Hadfield lives in Shetland. Her first collection Almanacs won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Her second collection Nigh-No-Place won the T. S. Eliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition in 2012. Her collection The Stone Age won the Highland Book Prize in 2022.