Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/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 George Mackay Brown Fellowship 913d90c7-dc01-5bd5-8345-63111379115c no en Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:36:58 +0100 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:42:17 +0000 https://img.transistor.fm/kKdhpIXwji92HtWUtECcKAPh3pqPTmF4sXV9bBtFEgM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMzY5/ZGI5ZmNjMzUzNjgz/YTM1NDFmYzJlYzg0/ZWIxYy5qcGc.jpg Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums episodic Kolekto 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 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. poetry, prose, Orkney Kolekto No No Episode 6 8 8 Episode 6 full 38c7b81d-9c2b-45ba-a82a-a15bf60cd71f https://share.transistor.fm/s/f6b19c79 Chapter 15: Trouble in Paradise
Chapter 16: This Modren Orkney
Chapter 17: An Orkney Bestiary
Chapter 18: Dancing and Weather

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Chapter 16: This Modren Orkney
Chapter 17: An Orkney Bestiary
Chapter 18: Dancing and Weather

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Chapter 16: This Modren Orkney
Chapter 17: An Orkney Bestiary
Chapter 18: Dancing and Weather

]]> poetry, prose, Orkney No Episode 5 7 7 Episode 5 full af8d81f3-ac68-4ccb-907d-85a001488d4b https://share.transistor.fm/s/da028767 Chapter 11: Hair an Claes
Chapter 12: The Body
Chapter 13: Seasons - four
Chapter 14: Poems for Rabbie Burns Day

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Chapter 12: The Body
Chapter 13: Seasons - four
Chapter 14: Poems for Rabbie Burns Day

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Chapter 12: The Body
Chapter 13: Seasons - four
Chapter 14: Poems for Rabbie Burns Day

]]> poetry, prose, Orkney Yes Episode 4 6 6 Episode 4 full ad51b68e-bac7-45ee-b296-6dc5eb2978a1 https://share.transistor.fm/s/fbbcbff3 Chapter 8: Seasons - two
Chapter 9: A Mense o Nonsense
Chapter 10: Seasons - three

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Chapter 10: Seasons - three

]]> poetry, prose, Orkney No Episode 3 5 5 Episode 3 full 605cdc16-775b-48da-a784-302af5670323 https://share.transistor.fm/s/7b406e43 Chapter 5: Water/Air/Fire/Earth. Elements o Orkney
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Chapter 6: Seasons - one
Chapter 7: Weemen's Lives

]]> poetry, prose, Orkney No Episode 2 4 4 Episode 2 full 526cad76-d5a5-43c4-b951-a661377c7ea4 https://share.transistor.fm/s/b9cfb634 Chapter 3: Mind On
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]]> poetry, prose, Orkney No Introduction 1 1 Introduction full f3e6a6eb-7c1a-447e-b67b-519894a29655 https://share.transistor.fm/s/0bfb41c3 Introduction to Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums.

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]]> poetry, prose, Orkney No Episode 1 2 2 Episode 1 full 1a29313d-db05-4813-b94b-3b6294ede63b https://share.transistor.fm/s/4be5988c Chapter 1: Mappan Orkney
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Chapter 2: George Mackay Brown

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Chapter 2: George Mackay Brown

]]> poetry, prose, Orkney No Writers biographies 3 3 Writers biographies full 9c3f4af8-14a2-42f7-82d7-ce875a77af65 https://share.transistor.fm/s/6a0a080e Moyra Brown
Lorraine Bruce
Vera Butler
Sheila Garson
Ingrid Grieve
Issy Grieve
Caroline Hume
Barbara Johnston
Alison Miller
Greer Norquoy
Barbara West

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

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

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