Jofrid Gunn: a biography in poetry
21 January 2026
Jennifer Morag Henderson, Biographer and Poet
Jennifer will talk about her own journey as a writer, from her biography of Josephine Tey to her life in poetry of a 16th-century Faroese woman who came to the north of Scotland to marry into Clan Gunn. Inspired by the glimpses of lives found in archives, her new book is a biography in poetry. Each poem can be read individually, but when put together they tell the story of Jofrid Gunn’s life – descriptions of the incredible natural places she lived in, the power of the sea, her family life, encounters with the huldufolk or ‘hidden people’ of legend, and her small part in the clan battles and blood feuds of the time.