Description
Comments on previous Worple collection,TheWatching Stair. 'a collection of poignant, often wryly humorous and always beautifully crafted poems...' - Vicki Feaver 'accessible, highly intelligent, wide-ranging poems that have a wonderful psychological truthfulness' - D. M. Black
About the Author
Diana Hendry has published seven poetry collections, including The Seed-Box Lantern: New & Selected Poems (Mariscat Press, 2013). Her most recent publications are The Watching Stair (Worple Press, 2018) and Where I Was (Mariscat, 2020). She is the author of more than forty books for children, winning a Whitbread Award with Harvey Angell. From 1997-8 she was Writer in Residence at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary. In 2007 she was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Edinburgh from 2008-10. She also writes short stories, which have been widely broadcast and published, and has co-edited New Writing Scotland. She lives in Edinburgh.
Reviews
'generosity of spirit' Richie McCaffery 'riches of feeling, unexpected depths and meanings, and a jolt to the senses in every tightly-controlled poem' James Roderick Burns
Book Information
ISBN 9781905208487
Author Diana Hendry
Format Paperback
Page Count 76
Imprint Worple Press
Publisher Worple Press