Unwritten Woman

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Divided into six sections, the collection opens with Edinburgh is a Story, a commissioned poem performed at the opening of the 2022 Edinburgh International Festival.

The collection then delves into the past and into the unwritten women of Robert Louis Stevensons TheStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. With vignettes of the unheard voices from Stevensons gothic masterpiece, this is a powerfully vivid evocation that gives new meaning to the tale. In her longest piece in the book, Fractals (a way if seeing infinity), Hannah looks at the recent past and takes the reader on a journey from the old inherited wounds to the trauma of tearing open again these chasms within recent discourses and events.

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Hannah Lavery is an award-winning poet and playwright. Her pamphlet, Finding Seaglass was published by Stewed Rhubarb and her poem, Scotland Youre No Mine was selected as one Scotlands Best Poems for 2019. The Drift, her highly acclaimed autobiographical lyric play toured Scotland as part of the National Theatre of Scotlands Season 2019.She was appointed Edinburgh Makar in November 2021 for a three year term. Her debut poetry collection, Blood Salt Spring was published in March 2022 (Polygon).