Hello,

Welcome to Lesley Glaister's website.

Hi, here you'll find information about myself, my novels, my approach to writing and  details about my teaching and mentoring roles. 


EVENTS:
18th August: Edinburgh Book Festival Reading with Clemen's Mayer, 5pm, Writers' Studio.
24th August: Launch of The Squeeze, at Waterstone's Princes St, Edinburgh, 6.30pm
16th-22nd September: Tutoring on The Literary Consultancy's Literary Adventure, Casa Ana, Spain. https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/event/literary-adventure-writing-retreat-2017/
8th October: Portobello Book Festival, Meet the Author event: Portobello Library  2.30     
                                              28th October: Off The Shelf Festival, Sheffield: Reader's Fiction Afternoon

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New publication date for The Squeeze, 15th August.  Launch in Edinburgh - see above for this and various other events.

Another surprise publication coming up, maybe later this year too. Can't say more yet ... but I'm very chuffed.
a great job with Little Egypt and are lovely to work with.
The poem below, the title poem of my Mariscat pamphlet, was selected, to my enormous honour and delight, as one of the  Scottish Poetry Library's 20 Best Scottish poems of 2015. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk

Visiting the Animal


I press my face against the glass
and there he is:
the recognition is complete
my way at least. The padded
luxury of his palms and soles,
the sooty static of his fur,
the lowering brow,
that flat brown stare.

He's in my dreams
but doesn't always wait 
for dreams: black speck
in my periphery, hiss
of fists through grass
makes me wish
for graze of leather lips.

He's shocking -
the heft and burl of him.
Captive, still he's wild.
My heart beats in time with his.
That wild would crush me.
When I leave I carry him
a tiny lope of black
at each cell's rim.