The Essay - Poet Kenneth Steven reflects on Scottish island life
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Poet Kenneth Steven has a special relationship with the small Hebridean island of Iona, set in the Atlantic off the west coast of Scotland. It was the place of learning and worship in the 6th century, when St Columba brought Christianity from Ireland and set up a monastery, and today it still has a spiritual quality for many of its visitors.
Kenneth has visited since he was a child and collected stones polished by the sea along its beaches. Today he reflects on Iona's place as a 'meeting of the sea roads, which has had such a profound impact on so many, and has done for longer than we can ever know'.
'..That is why I keep returning, thirsty, to this place That is older than my understanding, Younger than my broken spirit.'
Written and read by Kenneth Steven
Producer Mark Rickards
Published on Monday, 19th September 2016.
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