Lesley Harrison lives and works in a fishing village on Scotland’s north-east coast, and in her poetry and prose she records its layers of occupation, its languages and its deep, ancient sense of being at the southern temperate edge of a much older, colder world. Her writing takes place among the soundscapes, migration routes, relics and settlements of the North Atlantic rim, and asks how our experience of these is thinned or altered in this age of sudden change. She has published six poetry collections including One Bird Flying, a sequence responding to the journals of Marco Polo, written while she lived in Mongolia. She has held writing residencies in Iceland, Greenland and Svalbard, the furthest reach of Scotland’s North Sea whaling fleet which sailed from harbours near her home. The whale, a half-fabulous, transient creature, recurs throughout her writing as a reminder of the real proximity of the marvellous, and of the very frail ecologies of our lived world. “Kitchen Music is a meticulously crafted Northern Hymnal … essential reading for anyone keen to understand why poetry remains a unique force for change on this planet”.
萊斯利 · 哈里森生活和工作在蘇格蘭東北海岸的一個漁村。她在詩歌和散文中記錄了這個地方的多重歷史、語言，以及更古老、更寒冷世界的南部溫帶邊緣地區的深遠而古老的存在感。她的寫作發生於北大西洋邊緣的聲景、遷徙路線、遺跡和定居點，探討我們在這個突變時代如何被稀釋或改變這些體驗。她已出版了六本詩集，包括《One Bird Flying》，這是她在蒙古居住期間對馬可波羅日記的回應。她曾在冰島、格陵蘭和斯瓦爾巴群島擔任寫作駐留。鯨魚，這種半虛構、瞬息萬變的生物，在她的寫作中反復出現，提醒我們奇妙事物的真實接近，以及我們生活世界的脆弱生態。評論家稱：「《Kitchen Music》是一部精心製作的北方贊美詩……對於任何渴望理解詩歌為何仍是這個星球上獨特變革力量的人來說，都是必讀之作。」