'Weather Fronts', by Hannah Lavery.
Her debut poetry collection 'Blood, Salt, Spring' was released by Polygon in early 2022.
The poem 'Weather Fronts' was inspired by a letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to George Thomson about arranging music for Scottish songs, including 'the Maid of Isla'.
Lavery says:
'This poem is a meditation on what it is to meet at the boundaries: to consider that our culture, like our language, like our music, like our weather is never fixed – it is always changing – it is always meeting and renewing itself at the boundaries.'
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Video: Hannah Lavery
Hannah Lavery discusses her approach to working with the collections at the National Library of Scotland and how Beethoven's letter related to the landscape where she lives.
