Description
This is a new collection of poems. They are accessible, highly intelligent,and have a wonderful psychological truthfulness, particularly about relations between mother and daughter.The poems transcend the individual situation to become meditations on meaning in the face of mortality.
About the Author
Diana Hendry has published six poetry collections, including The Seed-Box Lantern: New and Selected Poems (Mariscat Press, 2013). Her short stories have been widely published and broadcast, She is the author of more than forty books for children-Harvey Angell won a Whitbread Award and her young novel, The Seeing, was shortlisted for a Costa Award. A junior novel, Out of the Clouds (Hodder), was published in 2016 with a sequel, Whoever You Are, in 2018. She has written the libretto for a new version of The Pied Piper of Hamlyn (music by John G Mortimer). From 1997-8 Diana was writer in residence at Dumfires & Galloway Royal Infirmary. In 2007 she was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and from 2008-10 was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is a frequent tutor on creative writing courses at Moniack Mhor Writers Centre and was recently co-editor of New Writing Scotland. She lives in Edinburgh. www.dianahendry.co.uk
Reviews
The Watching Stair is a wonderfully apt title for this collection. Like the narrator of the title poem, Diana Hendry is `intensely good' at both `watching and listening'. The result is a collection of poignant, often wryly humorous and always beautifully-crafted poems that open windows on childhood and old-age. Vicki Feaver
Book Information
ISBN 9781905208418
Author Diana Hendry
Format Paperback
Page Count 78
Imprint Worple Press
Publisher Worple Press
About the Author
Diana Hendry has published six poetry collections, including The Seed-Box Lantern: New and Selected Poems (Mariscat Press, 2013). Her short stories have been widely published and broadcast, She is the author of more than forty books for children-Harvey Angell won a Whitbread Award and her young novel, The Seeing, was shortlisted for a Costa Award. A junior novel, Out of the Clouds (Hodder), was published in 2016 with a sequel, Whoever You Are, in 2018. She has written the libretto for a new version of The Pied Piper of Hamlyn (music by John G Mortimer). From 1997-8 Diana was writer in residence at Dumfires & Galloway Royal Infirmary. In 2007 she was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and from 2008-10 was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is a frequent tutor on creative writing courses at Moniack Mhor Writers Centre and was recently co-editor of New Writing Scotland. She lives in Edinburgh. www.dianahendry.co.uk
Reviews
The Watching Stair is a wonderfully apt title for this collection. Like the narrator of the title poem, Diana Hendry is `intensely good' at both `watching and listening'. The result is a collection of poignant, often wryly humorous and always beautifully-crafted poems that open windows on childhood and old-age. Vicki Feaver
Book Information
ISBN 9781905208418
Author Diana Hendry
Format Paperback
Page Count 78
Imprint Worple Press
Publisher Worple Press
