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:
1.12.2017  Reading of The Squeeze: 7pm  in The Emporium Bookshops, Woodbridge, Suffolk.

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The Squeeze well and truly launched. It's funny, such a big run up to the event of publication and then it's over  - and then what? Start again.  It's curious that I always feel such a push to finish a book, surely more sensible to hang onto it as long as possible.  If I hadn't rushed at my first 8 or 9 and written one a year, I could still be eking them out.  On number 15 now, Blasted Things, set after World War One and loving being immersed in the 1920's. 

My first Young Adult book is to be published by new Edinburgh firm Stirling Publishing  in September next year. It's called Aphra's Child, planned to be the first of a trilogy, set in an alternative version of Scotland where the results of genetic engineering have caused some interesting problems ..
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.