Extract from Hether Blether by Leslie Harrison
Kate Mosse
Author and founder of the Women’s Prize
By Lesley Harrison
(Extract)
This is the first verse of Hether Blether, based on an Orkney folktale, in which a girl goes missing from the island of Rousay. Kitchen Music by Lesley Harrison is published this month by Carcanet Press. Lesley Harrison has published six collections of poetry; she currently lives in a small fishing village on the Angus coast of Scotland, where she also works as a teacher supporting language and literacy development
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