Diana Hendry
POETRY BOOKS
Making Blue, Peterloo Poets, 1995
Contains a group of poems set in Crete, plus poems about pianos, people and pigeons.
‘...the fresh eye that shines in her children’s novels is even more alert in these heart-searchings for grown-up.’ William Scammell, The Independent on Sunday
Borderers, Peterloo Poets 2001
A collection that explores the borders between life and death, culture and geography, youth and age, love and lust.
‘...gleams of magic that can inhabit commonplace events and phenomena...’
Vernon Scannell, The Sunday Telegraph
Twelve Lilts: Psalms & Responses, Mariscat Press, 2003
Translations of some of the vigorous Scots versions of the Psalms by P. Hately Waddell, published in 1871, coupled with Hendry’s personal responses to the psalms.
‘deep and full of beauty’. Amos Oz.
Sparks! (with Tom Pow), Mariscat Press, 2005
The record of a creative correspondence between two friends – the result is a collection of twenty-four poems that also act as a creative writing source
‘Scintillating!’ The Herald.
Late Love and Other Whodunnits, Peterloo/Mariscat Press, 2008
Detective work about love.
‘Somone once defined Diana Hendry’s particular gift as an ability to see the otherness of the very ordinary, and if you add that she has a sly sense of humour that gets it about right.’ Robert Nye, The Scotsman
For children
No Homework Tomorrow, Glowworm Books 2003
‘...the kind of looking which will not only raise awareness but inform children’s own writing.’ Jill Pirrie, TES
Poems United: A Commonwealth Anthology, (As editor with Hamish Whyte) Scottish Poetry Library and Black & White Publishing, 2007
‘...a superb resource for teaching any age group about poetry and other cultures.’ Fred Sedgwick, TES
Anthologies
Diana is represented in A Shame to Miss (Corgi);
Kin (Polygon & SPL);
New Writing Scotland 26 (ASLS)
100 Favourite Scottish Poems (Luath),
100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems, (Luath);
Read Me (Macmillan)
Swings & Shadows (Julia MacRae Books);
The Poetry Book Society Anthology 3;
The Thing That Matters Most; (Scottish Poetry Library);
The Works 5 (Macmillan); The Young Oxford Book of Poems (OUP) .and many others.
Magazines and journals in which poems by Diana
have appeared include:
Ambit, Bananas, Chapman, Critical Survey, Critical Quarterly, The Dark Horse, Encounter, Envoi, Gaelforce, The Guardian, The Herald, The London Magazine, Mandeville Press, New Poetry, Nonesuch, The North, Markings, Mslexia, Odyssey, Prospice, Poetry Chicago, Poetry Matters, Poetry Review, The Spectator, Smiths Knoll, The Sunday Independent, Thumbscrew, Writing Women.
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