Hazel Buchan Cameron grew up in Renfrewshire and has lived in Yorkshire, Edinburgh, Fife and Perthshire. She is author of five poetry pamphlets including The Currying Shop (2007), which was joint winner of the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award in 2008. She administered the Scottish Pamphlet Poetry website for ten years. In 2014 she was the first Writer-in-Residence for the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. An early memoir, Just Go In (from council estate to country estate), was published in 2015 by Gracenote Publications.

 

These poems reflect an awareness of unfamiliar territory that comes with a life lived beyond expectation and dreams. Poems created by survival, wonder and surprise. Many have been reworked from older pamphlet collections with the input of experience, conflict and enduring friendships. Bringing old and new together has revealed several recurring themes: birds, wilderness, memory and loss, familiar to all but with a fresh perspective.

 

‘The same likeable persona seems to speak throughout the poems in Hazel Buchan Cameron’s pamphlet Finding IKEA. This narrator’s charm lies in a willingness to discuss personal matters without self-pity. I particularly enjoyed the way humour is used to ameliorate sombre events. The opening lines of ‘Finding IKEA’ (‘We drive like tail enders on a party conga / in search of the Mecca of home furniture’ made me laugh out loud.’ —Fiona Sinclair, Sphinx

 

‘Such an astute perspective—all your sharp understanding is here.’ —J. MacKenzie

 

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