Bøker av Hannah Lavery

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 Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. With vignettes of the unheard voices from Stevenson's 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.

Blood Salt Spring is a meditation on where we are - exploring ideas of nation, race and belonging. Much of the collection tackles the isolation and traumas of 2020, but it also looks to find some meaning and makes an attempt to heal the pain and vulnerabilities that were picked and cut open again in the recent cultural shifts and political wars.

Based upon the true story of a death in custody, Lament for Sheku Bayoh asks the urgent question, is Scotland really a safe place?