Henrietta’s Library of The Whole Wide World

Description

Lydia Harris lives in the Orkney island of Westray. Orkney was home to the oldest public library in Scotland and Lydia mistakenly believed that Westray hosted its own 17th library. There was a Henrietta in Westray who lived at Trenaby and she surely could have had a library.

‘In the magical world of Lydia Harris’s poems, books are transformed into windows, hearts, birds, ghosts – even stars. History, landscape and love are woven together in poems which are celebratory, uplifting, reverential and sublime. Lydia Harris is a poet who brings new meaning to the word unique’ – John Glenday.