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Hannah Lavery is a published poet and award-winning playwright and performer, andsoon to be appointed Edinburgh's new Makar.Her poetry has been published by Gutter, the Scotsman and others. Her first pamphlet of short fiction, Rocket Girls, was published by Postbox Press (2018) and her poetry pamphlet, Finding Seaglass: Poems from The Drift was published by Stewed Rhubarb Press (2019). She has also been a featured poet at many spoken word and poetry nights including Neu! Reekie!,Sonnet Youth, Rally and Broad, Flint and Pitch and Loud Poets, and festivals including, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Stanza, Solas, Kelburn Garden Party, and Electric Fields.
'hers is a voice which speaks to and for the conflicted conscience of Scotland around issues of identity, race, justice and belonging with a power and authenticity like perhaps no other' -- Malcolm Jack * The Scotsman * 'moves from poignant lyricism to Informationist-style interrogation of language' -- Stuart Kelly 'Much of it written through lockdown, it has an interesting take on a world of isolation' * Scots Magazine * 'Blood Salt Spring offers a personal response to wider cultural conversations from national identity to personal autonomy, divisive politics to mothering during lockdown. Its terrain is vast. Its perspective unequivocal' -- Rachel Loughran * The National * 'With much of the collection written in lockdown, it's poetry that feels both of the moment while reaching out and attempting to find meaning, to move forward, and find hope' * Books From Scotland *
