This Time | Alison Roe
A short collection of memoir pieces, and a poem, set in the North West Highlands of Scotland, about living aboard a sailboat, hill walking, dry stone walling, the role of landscape in recovery from a concussion, and the long, slow process of finding a home.
A5 pamphlet | 44 pages | Illustrated | £9
It’s mesmerising, through and through. I loved reading the memoir pieces, loved the illustrations, and thought the whole thing was beautifully presented.
— Carol McKay, poet and author
Alison’s writing is wonderfully crisp and full of passion, utterly alive to this place and her route through it, into it. The whole collection feels so carefully sculpted, it’s a real pleasure to lean in and feel its solidity and poise. It’s a thing of beauty, both typographically and, especially, in its song.
— Mandy Haggith, Assynt-based author
I loved Alison Roe’s new pamphlet ‘This Time’ not just for the look and the packaging, splendid though they were. It’s a beautifully written glimpse into her life on sea and shore in the Scottish Highlands. As she says, it all began when she sailed into Assynt on a summer’s afternoon… I can’t wait to read whatever she writes next.
— Alex Morgan, journalist and writer
Stockists:
- Lochinver Bookshop, Assynt
- Drumbeg Stores, Assynt
- Fisk Gallery, Polbain, Coigach
- The Ceilidh Place Bookshop, Ullapool
- The Highland Bookshop, Fort William
- Golden Hare Books, Stockbridge, Edinburgh
- Good Press, Glasgow
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Alison Roe is from Edinburgh and lives in Lochinver where she walks, rows, plays taiko (Japanese drums), and builds walls. Her work has been published by the Scottish Mountaineering Press Creatives platform, Northwords Now, Stravaig (Journal of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics), and Elsewhere, and she won the 2013 Moniack Mhor New Writers Prize. Her writing washes up intermittently at solanoire.com.
ISBN 978-1-9195103-0-9 | £9
A5 pamphlet, 44 pages, saddle stitched, cover 350g Colorplan, fly leaf 135g Colorplan, contents 100gsm uncoated