Jim Mainland
Jim Mainland
Jim Mainland, b. 1952, belongs to Lerwick, and now lives in the north mainland of Shetland. He recently retired from teaching English at Brae High School. His poems and prose can be found in the New Shetlander, in other magazines and anthologies locally and nationally, and online. His first poetry collection was A Package of Measures (2002) and his second The League of Notions (September 2013) published by Hansel Cooperative Press. While most of his work is in English, Jim has translated a wide variety of poetry into vivid Shetland dialect.
