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The Watching Stair is a wonderfully apt title for this collection. Like the narrator of the title poem, Diana Hendry is `intensely good at both `watching and listening. The result is a collection of poignant, often wryly humorous and always beautifully-crafted poems that open windows on childhood and old-age. Vicki Feaver

Diana Hendry has published six poetry collections, including The Seed-Box Lantern: New and Selected Poems (Mariscat Press, 2013). Her short stories have been widely published and broadcast, She is the author of more than forty books for childrenHarvey Angell won a Whitbread Award and her young novel, The Seeing, was shortlisted for a Costa Award. A junior novel, Out of the Clouds (Hodder), was published in 2016 with a sequel, Whoever You Are, in 2018. She has written the libretto for a new version of The Pied Piper of Hamlyn (music by John G Mortimer). From 19978 Diana was writer in residence at Dumfires & Galloway Royal Infirmary. In 2007 she was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and from 200810 was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is a frequent tutor on creative writing courses at Moniack Mhor Writers Centre and was recently co-editor of New Writing Scotland. She lives in Edinburgh. www.dianahendry.co.uk

Autobiography 1 The Watching Stair 2 The Catch 3 Before 4 The Billiard Room 5 My First Love 6 Murphy 7 Imaginary Snakes 8 Latin by Post 10 Mother on the Beach 11 The Beaten Track 12 Other Mothers 13 The Pot of Rouge 14 Far from true 15 Kaddish 16 Fathers Doors 17 Fire Watch 18 Sonny Boy 19 The Greenhouse 20 What were here for 21 Cousins i 22 Cousins ii 24 Lighting Effects 25 Parting 26 My Daughters House 27 Wind, go easy 28 Charades with Freya (7) 29 To Talia, at six months 30 Travelling with Ruairidh 31 Boys 32 Signs 33 Watching telly with you 34 The Winter Pilgrim 35 Caroline Herschel: Her CV 37 Paddy on his long Irish legs 38 Abduction 39 Dorothy Dobson 40 Never Brought to Mind 41 Absent Friends 42 To friends prevented by illness from visiting 44 Gwen Boyt 45 Jim on Sax 46 The Kano Beggars 47 Leonard 48 Abigails Garden 49 Portobello Beach 50 Trespassing 51 What the rowan tree said 52 April: Early Evening 53 Yellow Poppies 54 Nasturtiums 55 How to play the piano 56 The Last Piano 58 In praise of a potted cyclamen 59 In praise of the man with big ears 60 In praise of the Variscan 61 Canada 62 Camouflage 63 On being asked to write a poem about a tool or utensil 64 Treasure 66 Timor mortis conturbat me 67 End Matter 68 Callers 70 Beyond 71 Praise Poem 72 Dear Seamus 75 Notes 76 About the Author 77