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Visit That day I found you tiny in the bedroom chair translucent skin as soft as moths' wings, lit up like a paper lantern. I brought you tight curled hyachinths cut lilac sweet to scent the room. Three days later you were gone. Even the hyacinths outlasted you. Eleanor Livingstone |
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| Eleanor Livingstone
was born in 1957 and spent her early years in Bathgate.
At the age of 8, she moved to Fife where she still lives.
She has been writing poetry for 10 years and in 2005
became Artistic Director of StAnza, Scotland's Poetry
Festival. The Last King of Fife, published
by HappenStance in 2005, is her first collection. "Eleanor Livingstone's poetry is intelligent, wry, with a sharp local flavour, but its horizons are wide, celebrating everyday human experience with verve and an instinctive feel for language - a memorable first collection." (Anna Crowe) "Her voice is friendly, measured and vivid; and the variety of subject matter leaves plenty of room for enjoyable surprises." (Maggie Butt) The Last King of Fife is available for £3.00 from HappenStance |
