Thank you very much to Michael Schmidt and PNReview for printing my prose piece ‘Hand written: making the case for a difficult pen”.
I describe my efforts to write with quill feathers from the gannets washed up on the beach here during the avian flu epidemic; and the whole process of hand-drafting poetry as a way of weighing out every word and space, and embedding yourself properly in the text.
Read it on PNR No. 280 Nov-Dec 2024. Thanks again!
Lesley Harrison lives and works on the Angus coast. In her writing, she explores how it is to live at the southern, temperate edge of a much colder northern world. She has held writing residencies in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. Drawing from archives, folk myth and cultural memory as well as her own explorations and experience, her poetry and prose make real our negotiation with, and our constant striving to give meaning and scale to, this unstable and ultimately unknowable space. She is a member of the North Sea Poets collective - northseapoets.com. View all posts by lesleyharrisonpoetry
Lesley Harrison ~ poetry etc 