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Rhoda Bulter
Rhoda Bulter (15 July 1929 – 1994), Shetland author, is one of the best-known Shetland poets of recent times.
Born Rhoda Jernetta Ann Johnson, in Lerwick, she was the daughter of Jeremiah Johnson, seaman, from West Houlland in the parish of Walls, and Barbara Huano Thomason, from Da Horn, Lower Skelberry, Lunnasting. In January 1949 she married Dennis Bulter, 'Met man' from Lerwick Observatory.
Her first poem, 'Fladdabister', was published in The New Shetlander in 1970, following which she became a prolific writer in the Shetland dialect. For various reasons, her literary legacy is as yet uncollected. Four slim volumes of verse were published in her lifetime – Shaela, A Nev Foo a Coarn (subsequently combined as Doobled-Up), Linkstanes and Snyivveries
Rhoda was a frequent contributor to the local Radio Shetland, reading her poems, and forming a double act known as "Tamar and Beenie" with local broadcaster and freelance journalist Mary Blance.
She also, over a number of years, wrote a regular monthly column for Shetland Life magazine, the fictional Beenie’s Diary.
This 22 track CD, a re-release of her 1976 LP was issued through BleatBeat Records on 9 December 2006 and featured recordings of Rhoda reading the following selection of her poetry:
Rhoda Bulter (1929–94) is one of our most popular poets today. She published four volumes of verse all in the dialect ... Humorous, satirical, meditative and always vividly descriptive her poetry is a triumphant assertion of the vitality of the Shetland dialect today. Her poems reflect an intense love of the local scene, the land and the sea, the flowers, the birds, the animals, and the crofting communities she knew when young. Her pictures of the old traditional life could have been simply nostalgic, but she is saved from this by the vivid realism and intimacy of detail which vitalise, these scenes. She is conscious too of the darker side of life and is moved to bitterness and anger by the destructive side of man, his greed, his abuse of the land, his cruelty to wild life, industrial exploitation and the ultimate crime of nuclear war … …Rhoda Bulter never regarded land as a commodity. She saw herself as belonging to that land, a land to care for and to love.
— Laurence I. Graham, 'Shetland Literature and the idea of community' in Shetland’s Northern Links: Language and History, (Edinburgh 1996)
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Rhoda Bulter
Rhoda Bulter (15 July 1929 – 1994), Shetland author, is one of the best-known Shetland poets of recent times.
Born Rhoda Jernetta Ann Johnson, in Lerwick, she was the daughter of Jeremiah Johnson, seaman, from West Houlland in the parish of Walls, and Barbara Huano Thomason, from Da Horn, Lower Skelberry, Lunnasting. In January 1949 she married Dennis Bulter, 'Met man' from Lerwick Observatory.
Her first poem, 'Fladdabister', was published in The New Shetlander in 1970, following which she became a prolific writer in the Shetland dialect. For various reasons, her literary legacy is as yet uncollected. Four slim volumes of verse were published in her lifetime – Shaela, A Nev Foo a Coarn (subsequently combined as Doobled-Up), Linkstanes and Snyivveries
Rhoda was a frequent contributor to the local Radio Shetland, reading her poems, and forming a double act known as "Tamar and Beenie" with local broadcaster and freelance journalist Mary Blance.
She also, over a number of years, wrote a regular monthly column for Shetland Life magazine, the fictional Beenie’s Diary.
This 22 track CD, a re-release of her 1976 LP was issued through BleatBeat Records on 9 December 2006 and featured recordings of Rhoda reading the following selection of her poetry:
Rhoda Bulter (1929–94) is one of our most popular poets today. She published four volumes of verse all in the dialect ... Humorous, satirical, meditative and always vividly descriptive her poetry is a triumphant assertion of the vitality of the Shetland dialect today. Her poems reflect an intense love of the local scene, the land and the sea, the flowers, the birds, the animals, and the crofting communities she knew when young. Her pictures of the old traditional life could have been simply nostalgic, but she is saved from this by the vivid realism and intimacy of detail which vitalise, these scenes. She is conscious too of the darker side of life and is moved to bitterness and anger by the destructive side of man, his greed, his abuse of the land, his cruelty to wild life, industrial exploitation and the ultimate crime of nuclear war … …Rhoda Bulter never regarded land as a commodity. She saw herself as belonging to that land, a land to care for and to love.
— Laurence I. Graham, 'Shetland Literature and the idea of community' in Shetland’s Northern Links: Language and History, (Edinburgh 1996)