Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums

About Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums This is the audio version o Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, the book written bae Orkney Voices and published by the George Mackay Brown Fellowship for the centenary o George Mackay Brown in 2021 Orcadians don’t aal spaek the same. Aal the perishes and islands hiv thir own weys o spaekeen and thir own wirds. And we even write the wird/wurd different weys/wiys. Some fokk write hid ‘spikk’; some fokk, ‘spaek’; some, ‘spake’. In this you’ll hear different versions o Orcadian fae different perts o the islands - Birsay tae Deerness, Shapinsay tae Kirkwall, Orphir tae Harray, Tankerness and Holm. You’ll hear twathree uncan vowels, descended fae Orkney Norn and wir Norse heritage, and a mense o wirds you might no ken but that aer rich and expressive and rooted in the land and shores o wir islands. The title hidsel hads three good Orkney wirds: Gouster is a sharp breeze o wind or an ootburst o language Glim is a glimmer, a blink o light or fire Veerie-orums aer fancy patterns or ornamentation; but the word originates in the Latin ‘variorum’, which noo usually means a book wae contributions fae different writers. We are very prood tae present this audio version o wark fae Orkney Voices: Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums. Alison Miller, January 2025

Publisher

Kolekto

Category

arts · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Feb 2025

Latest episode

21 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

8 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Feb 2025

   Episode 6

   Chapter 15: Trouble in Paradise Chapter 16: This Modren Orkney Chapter 17: An Orkney Bestiary Chapter 18: Dancing and Weather

2. 

   19 Feb 2025

   Episode 5

   Chapter 11: Hair an Claes Chapter 12: The Body Chapter 13: Seasons - four Chapter 14: Poems for Rabbie Burns Day

3. 

   17 Feb 2025

   Episode 4

   Chapter 8: Seasons - two Chapter 9: A Mense o Nonsense Chapter 10: Seasons - three

4. 

   14 Feb 2025

   Episode 3

   Chapter 5: Water/Air/Fire/Earth. Elements o Orkney Chapter 6: Seasons - one Chapter 7: Weemen's Lives

5. 

   12 Feb 2025

   Episode 2

   Chapter 3: Mind On Chapter 4: Hae a Keepeen on

6. 

   3 Feb 2025

   Writers biographies

   Moyra Brown Lorraine Bruce Vera Butler Sheila Garson Ingrid Grieve Issy Grieve Caroline Hume Barbara Johnston Alison Miller Greer Norquoy Barbara West

7. 

   3 Feb 2025

   Introduction

   Introduction to Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums.

8. 

   3 Feb 2025

   Episode 1

   Chapter 1: Mappan Orkney Chapter 2: George Mackay Brown

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