Aboard

Alison Roe is from Edinburgh and now lives on the north-west Highland coast. She’s always been drawn to the sea and the north and is currently writing a book about a sailing trip to Arctic Norway. For several years, she sailed and lived aboard with her partner. However, a head injury prompted her to move ashore, and she’s now collating her reflections on her time afloat and the strange after-effects of bouncing one’s head off some of the oldest rock in Scotland.

She’s had work published in Northwords Now and Stravaig (the journal of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics), among others. She’s usually up a hill, playing taiko (Japanese drums), building dry stone walls or flitting around in her wee van, a mobile writing studio which doubles up as drum transport. Her musings on all this wash up intermittently at solanoire.com.