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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