Fiona Cowan passed away in Jan 2019. This fundraising page aims to support Breast Cancer Now which has the fabulous aim that “By 2050 nobody dies”.
While collecting money to fund research and care is a worthwhile aim, this page, the Merry Dancers in the Sky book and several associated live events are intended to do more than that. 

All the time I knew Fiona, she would regularly turn out bits and pieces of poetry, often for special occasions and just for fun. Then, somehow, it started getting a bit more formal. She submitted three poems for a published collection, won a prize at a local show and in a competition run by the Orkney Heritage Society. One poem was included in Songs of Praise from Kirkwall Cathedral. She also entered and won a short story competition after which further short stories followed.
As I was going through various documents after Fiona had left us, I kept coming across her writing, often very funny and usually in Orcadian. Eventually it got to the point that there was so much material that I thought it should be made more widely available.
Initially, my idea was simply to put it up online. But then the idea just “growed and growed” first into a live event, then a fundraiser and now this page, two live events and the poetry and prose collection Merry Dancers in the Sky. 

So all of this is to remember Fiona, give her words a wider platform and enjoy her tremendous sense of fun which comes over so clearly in her poetry and prose - and help the cause of consigning breast cancer to history.

So please give, contact me at lescowan@worldofdavidhidalgo.com for a copy of the book, and come to one of our local poetry events if you can. 

Les