Len Pennie — laughing, greetin' and poyums annaw in Orkney visit

Len Pennie — laughing, greetin' and poyums annaw in Orkney visit

“Trauma, trauma, trauma, hedgehog…” Len Pennie sums up her latest collection of poems in the down-to-earth fashion that has made her visit to Orkney a hit with school pupils and an audience at Stromness Academy. An hedgehog encounter does indeed feature in Poyums Annaw, the second book by the acclaimed writer, who favours the notes app on her phone over notebooks and came to prominence online during lockdown. But so too do the experiences of a 2…