Hugo Burge Foundation award 2026

I am so delighted to have received a grant from the Hugo Burge Foundation this year. This will fund the transcribing of a whaling journal held in storage at Dundee Art Galleries & Museums. The journal was written by John Wanless, surgeon aboard The Thomas on three voyages from Dundee to the west coast of Greenland, up to the very north of Baffin Bay. A truly incredible story.

The project will fund the transcription, and the writing of a number of poems inspired by the document, which hopefully will in turn provide inspiration for musical interpretation. Watch this space ….

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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.

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