Author: Iona Glen

Iona Glen is a writer and researcher based in Edinburgh, working in museums’ visitor services. She loves writing about women artists, nature, memory, and people’s relationships to their environments. Her creative non-fiction has been published by DearDamsels’ (SEALSKIN | Iona Glen explores her changing relationship with the skin she exists in. (deardamsels.com) and her analysis of Margaret Tait’s film Blue Black Permanent was published by Girls’ on Top's blog Read Me (Selkie Song: Female Creativity in Margaret Tait’s Blue Black Permanent — Girls on Tops (girlsontopstees.com). Her newsletter, the cherry log, explores humankind’s complex relationships to nature and the non-human world.

An interview with award-winning poet Polly Atkin in Grasmere: ‘When is a cloud lonely in the Lake District?’

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Iona Glen meets award-winning poet, Polly Atkin, to discuss her recent biography Recovering Dorothy, how Dorothy Wordsworth’s illness has been overlooked in academic scholarship, the marginalisation of those with chronic ill health, poems as time machines and much more.

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Rain & Moonlight: Weathering with Dorothy Wordsworth and Polly Atkin by Iona Glen

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Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals shine with moonlight and rain-washed landscapes, but did her later illness inhibit such vision? No, writes Iona Glen, who, when considering the poetry and criticism of Polly Atkin, sees Wordsworth’s creativity flourish in her periods of ill health.

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A Home of the Muses by Iona Glen

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Iona Glen reflects on Celia Paul’s memoir, Self Portrait, the significance of the British Museum and Bloomsbury to the artist’s work, and her subversive vanquishing of “muse-dom” and patriarchal conventions through painting.

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