
StAnza 2026 Poetry workshop led by Barbara Usher and Liz Crichton
Looking forward to leading this workshop on 15th March, and creating new communal poems at the Red Telephone Box, North Street, St Andrews. Member of the Fife Stanza, and Revelation Arts helped to trial it. So ready and very much anticipating a good day and some brilliant poems.
St Aebbe’s calling to redeem the land
St Aebbe (c.615-683) was one of the pioneers of Christianity in seventh century Northumbria. Noah’s Arcs was originally sited in the Borders, which would have been part of Northumbria. This poem was published in the anthology Sarah Law (ed.) Thin Places, Sacred Spaces (2024, Amethyst Press) ‘a mother of the handmaidens of Christ, called Aebbe,…


