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Siún Carden
Siún Carden comes from near the Mourne Mountains in County Down and has lived in Shetland for a decade. She won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for poetry in 2024.
Her 2026 pamphlet The Boat Game is published by Stewed Rhubarb Press in Edinburgh. It moves through a world of ships, ferry routes, offshore rigs, and subsea cables, tracing the hidden systems that connect lives across oceans and islands, exploring what it means to travel, to depart, and to remain. A first pamphlet, Tract, was published by The Well Review in Ireland in 2023. It spanned Belfast and Shetland and was inspired by religious tracts as ephemeral publications.
Elsewhere, her poems have appeared in journals including Irish Pages, The North, Magma, The Interpreter's House, Glasgow Review of Books, The Tangerine and Northwords Now. Work also appears in the anthologies Almarks: Radical Poetry from Shetland (Culture Matters) and The Middle of a Sentence (The Common Breath).
Siún is a Lead Reader for Open Book’s Shetland creative writing group and has worked with groups of all ages, including through her work as a lecturer and researcher at UHI Shetland.