Hannah Lavery is a poet and playwright from Edinburgh. Her debut poetry collection Blood Salt Spring (Polygon) was nominated for a Saltire Prize in 2022, her second collection Unwritten Woman was published by Polygon in August 2024. Hannah is the former Makar (poet laureate) for the City of Edinburgh, co-host of feminist arts podcast QuineCast […]
Hannah Lavery is a Scottish poet and playwright. She was appointed Edinburgh Makar (or city poet) in November 2021 for a three year term. She was also selected by Owen Sheers’ as one of his Ten Writers Asking Questions That Will Shape Our Future for the International Literature Showcase, a project from the National Writing […]
Hannah Lavery is a poet, playwright, performer and director. The Drift, her autobiographical lyric play, toured Scotland as part of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Season 2019. In 2020, she was a recipient of a New Playwrights Award by Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland and selected by Owen Sheers’ as one of his Ten Writers Asking Questions That Will Shape Our […]