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:
​6th November: Reading at A Write Highland Hoolie, Mallaig. Further details later.
21st November: North Ayreshire Reader's Day. Further details later.

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Well how things have changed since I last edited this site!  I've just deleted the three launch events that were planned around the arrival into the world of Blasted Things - publication date 7th May:  https://sandstonepress.com/books/blasted-things. It will now slip quietly into the world - but I do hope not unnoticed.
Like most university lecturers I had to suddenly get my act together and learn to teach online for the last half of the semester, and consequently missed out on getting to know my delightful students better.  And I haven't written a word since March, apart from a few scrappy lines of poetry, which I hope, when I can concentrate, to spend some time musing over.
Underneath is the first poem from my Moreton Bay Fig sequence in 'Nub' published by Mariscat Press.

Meeting
 
Do you know the Moreton Bay Fig?
Have you been introduced?
The one that spreads hall-sized 
the one with buttress roots
that stretch like walls, head high or more
the one with little beads of figs
inedible, with patent leather leaves
the one that’s deeply littered underneath
in rustling clefts?
 
A human can press her lips
against that vegetable hulk
can eye the O’s and eyes
that stretch the bark
rear back her head to gasp
at massive boughs
(how do they branch so far, bear all that weight?)
the complex bulk:
in wonderment, in worship
– or in want?