Pauline Prior-Pitt - Poet: women, sea shores and storms, anxieties, love and loss ...
Pauline Prior-Pitt is a poet and lives on the island of North Uist just next door to Berneray. Pauline has contributed greatly to creative writing in the islands, for years she has organised the Creative Writing Group, Poetry Evenings and the Book Week, encouraging, mentoring and coaxing many budding authors and poets.
Her own poetry readings attract large audiences at festivals and literature events. She has appeared on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Pick of the Week and With Great Pleasure, and on Channel 4 and Central Television. She is an entertaining after dinner speaker. Her collection North Uist Sea Poems won the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for pamphlet poetry in 2006. She is also a very accomplished landscape artist.
Time with Pauline is always a pleasure with laughter, sincere discussions on politics and feminist issues, family life and the challenges of simply being a woman. So I very much enjoyed our morning together earlier this week.
