Harriet Lund
Speculative Fiction Author and Award-Winning Poet
A Soliloquy of Light
It's 4638AD and humanity speaks one language. Or so the hegemony claims. Political and personal intrigue are building amid a war with an enigmatic alien species...
A Memory Called Empire meets EmbassyTown
"Dialect splashed insurgent across plazas, smearing the bright neons of holoverts against walls and floor in streaks of garish light. The daughters and sons of Dar, reform giddy, had gathered in workplace taverns, protests conceived in shattered glass. Dialect sung loud in indignant voices."
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Upcoming science fiction...
Hours compressed into bro ken sec onds,
Moments marching in
ectopic
beats,
Arrhythmia captured in the irregular count
Of minutes, de
railing the linear.
Hospital Hours,
An autobiographical poem reflecting on the time spent in my local emergency department
Poetry Excerpts
Ymaginacioun,
That creature of the soul,
Mapping worlds
To span neuron-bridges,
Tends a garden grown wild,
Lifts up eyes to distant mountains,
Shods feet to wander,
And
Explores
Ymaginacioun, a poem exploring the mind in relation to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Fram ofer lyftedorum Ä¡egildenum-ecged beyeondan...
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From over golden-edged clouds beyond,
Rises a due-easterly wind carrying,
Sunrise, a golden ship, between,
The glistening splendour of its rushing joy-wings:
The wind is a sower of light, calling forth its sunrise.
Leoð of þæm Earendles, a poem written in Anglo-Saxon with its translation, featuring in my novel, A Soliloquy of Light
About Harriet Lund
As an author living with a neurological condition, I have time to daydream. Most of my days are spent in other worlds. My poetry explores the raw difficulty of life with hopeful undertones. Nature often characterises the hopeful aspects of my work, alongside my Christian faith.
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I studied English Literature at the University of St Andrews (1st class degree). I am passionate about linguistics, which sparked the idea for my science fiction novel. Anglo-Saxon is one of my great loves.
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Some of my poetry is written in Anglo-Saxon or incorporates aspects of Old and Middle English.
