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Plummer's message of supportive positivity and self-affirmation through legend and myth reassures any young reader that there are so many shades of being -- that it is important, though often hard, to be who you are or want to be, not what others demand or expect to you be. [...] These poems are a deeply humane and necessary way of rehabilitating the old with the new and I wish as a child I'd had access to such resources as the poems and paintings in Wain. Richie McCaffery, Poetry School Rachel Plummer's Wain represents an ideal project in the field of children's/YA literature whose aim is to make the queer community feel like a welcomed and valid part of society, as it manages to harness and combine the educational power of folktales and the possibility of inclusive heritage. Though it is primarily targeting Scottish families, the fact itself that it is grounded in mythology gives it potential to appeal to readers all over the world. As such, Wain does not only fulfill the manifesto of LGBT Youth Scotland, but goes beyond it, helping not only Scotland, but the world be the best place to grow up for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex young people. Tereza Walsbergerova, Re: Views Magazine

"""Plummer's message of supportive positivity and self-affirmation through legend and myth reassures any young reader that there are so many shades of being -- that it is important, though often hard, to be who you are or want to be, not what others demand or expect to you be. [...] These poems are a deeply humane and necessary way of rehabilitating the old with the new and I wish as a child I'd had access to such resources as the poems and paintings in Wain."" Richie McCaffery, Poetry School ""Rachel Plummer's Wain represents an ideal project in the field of children's/YA literature whose aim is to make the queer community feel like a welcomed and valid part of society, as it manages to harness and combine the educational power of folktales and the possibility of inclusive heritage. Though it is primarily targeting Scottish families, the fact itself that it is grounded in mythology gives it potential to appeal to readers all over the world. As such, Wain does not only fulfill the manifesto of LGBT Youth Scotland, but goes beyond it, helping not only Scotland, but the world be the best place to grow up for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex young people."" Tereza Walsbergerová, Re: Views Magazine"

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Rachel Plummer is a poet living in Edinburgh. She is a Scottish Book Trust New Writer's Award winner (2016) and has won or placed in numerous other awards and competitions, including the Troubadour Prize, the Flambard Prize, the Penfro, and Canterbury Festival's Poet of the Year Award. Her poetry has appeared in magazines including The Dark Horse, Mslexia, Agenda, Interpreter's House, Gutter and New Walk, and anthologies including New Writing Scotland (2017, published by ASLS), The Emma Press Anthology of Love, and 154 from Live Canon, an anthology of contemporary responses to Shakespeare's sonnets. In 2017 she published a pamphlet of sci-fi poetry with House Press and received a cultural commission from LGBT Youth Scotland to write the poems that appear in Wain. She runs creative writing workshops for children and teens. She has two children, three guinea pigs, and entirely too many books.

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