Judith Taylor's Local Colour was published in February 2010.
She comes from Perthshire and is now based in Aberdeen. She studied English and
Mediaeval History at St Andrews and until recently worked with IT in libraries,
which allowed her plenty of scope to use her Anglo-Saxon vocabulary. She is
currently studying for an MSc in Information Technology at Aberdeen University.
Her poetry has been published in magazines including New Writing Scotland,
Poetry Scotland, MsLexia and The Rialto, and her first chapbook collection,
Earthlight, was published by Koo Press in 2006. She has appeared at
Shore Poets, Wordfringe and most recently at StAnza and with the
Stanza Roadshow at the Durham Book Festival. She is a member of the
editorial team at Pushing Out the Boat magazine.
http://www.secondlightlive.co.uk/members/judithtaylor.shtml
http://www.koopress.co.uk
http://www.pushingouttheboat.co.uk
http://www.stanzapoetry.org/2009/participant.php?participant=144
http://www.bookfestival.org.uk/festival-programme/3-scottish-poetry-night.html
Sample poem:
The White Lady
In the place where they beheaded her
there’s a pub now;
where the House was,
a housing estate; and she alone
can still see the sycamore
where she trysted with him.
That was how they expressed it
back then – they called him her paramour .
Not the word we’d use now
for her uncle James, the man she killed.
The lie of the land is all changed.
Still she waits
in the white taffeta hood
she wore to her execution
knife hid in her kirtle
and the moment of her vengeance coming near again
and again.
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