SALON EXCLUSIVE: Lesley Storm reads from 'It's About Time'

We’re delighted to be featuring Lesley Storm’s beautiful collection of poems - It's About Time: Poems of an Uncertain Woman. At 67-years-old, Lesley has written a meditation on the passing of time, her reflections living as a trans woman and overcoming adversity, and what it means to her to be a woman. Here are love poems, life poems, elegies, aubades, odes, existential solitude poems, prose poems, joyous poems of fleeting human pleasures, poems compassionate, sanguine and witty, poems delicate with vulnerability, urgent poems on survival over time. ‘Powerful, moving and accomplished poems that speak to all humanity’. - Jane Goldman, screenwriter It’s About Time: Poems of an Uncertain Woman is published by Edinburgh based indie press Leamington Books and is available directly from them here, or in all good bookshops.  Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices