Postcards 2026

July 2026

in progress (2 now printed, one being reprinted with stronger tea colours)

Size A6

Alistair Peebles *Rousay Mending* a postcard | Brae Editions, Orkney, 2026. See also *Rousay Mending* and *Rousay Mending: A Footnote* (Brae Editions, 2026), available separately. Discontinued version.

Alistair Peebles, "A wild stone..." a postcard | Brae Editions, Orkney, 2026 | See for reference Ian Hamilton Finlay, “Finlay’s House (in Rousay)” in *The Dancers Inherit the Party* (1960, reprinted Alec Finlay (ed.), *Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections* 2012). See also Alistair Peebles, *Rousay Mending: A Footnote* (2026).

Alistair Peebles, *Orkney Interior: Homage to Ian Hamilton Finlay* | Brae Editions, Orkney, 2026. See for reference Ian Hamilton Finlay, “Orkney Interior” in *The Dancers Inherit the Party* (1960) and Ian Hamilton Finlay, *Interior/Intérieur: Homage to Vuillard* (1971).

Such an Air—a Coda

Such an Air VI The poet John Sharkey's arrival in Rousay was completely unexpected. He had followed Ian from Edinburgh, more or less on a whim. Malnourished, impoverished and sick with the rigours of travel, probably by hitch-hiking, he spent a week or so recovering in hospital

Such an Air (V)

Such an Air (IV) GEORGE SUFFERED too from this shivering thing, and hadn’t believed Ian would make it back here. He’d long been physically sick as well, with TB, but had got away at last, via Newbattle, and Muir, and now the university. Whatever he did later, the

Rousay Mending—its tangible elements illustrated

Such an Air (IV)

Such an Air (III) WEDNESDAYS IN Kirkwall were half-day closing, and the other week Ernest had asked Ian along to the Cathedral. He was keen to tell him more about the plans already in progress for a plaque to be installed there in Edwin's honour, interred as

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Such an Air—a Coda

Such an Air (V)

Rousay Mending—its tangible elements illustrated

Such an Air (IV)