Tom Pow
Poet and writer Tom Pow participated in the poetry translation workshops and the festival in Lebanon and in the UK in 2011.
Tom Pow was born in Edinburgh (1950) and lives in Dumfries. He teaches part-time on Lancaster University’s Distance Learning Masters in Creative Writing and is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow University Dumfries. Primarily a poet, several of his collections have won awards and three have been short-listed for Scottish Book of the Year. Dear Alice, Narratives of Madness won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Poetry Book of the Year in 2009, the same year In The Becoming – New and Selected Poems was published. He has also written young adult novels, picture books, radio plays and a travel book about Peru. A book of essays, travelogues, stories and poems, In Another World – Among Europe’s Dying Villages, was published in 2012.
Tom Pow
An exhibition based on his creative responses to the project runs at the National Library of Scotland from April to July this year. He has held various writing posts, including that of Scottish/Canadian Writing Fellow, based at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He was the first Writer in Residence at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (2001-2003) and, in 2013, he was Bartholomew Writer in Residence at the National Library of Scotland. A Wild Adventure, Thomas Watling Dumfries Convict Artist, and Concerning the Atlas of Scotland and Other Poems, based on his work at the NLS (both books published by Polygon) were published in summer 2014. He took part recently in the Commonwealth Poets United project (search ‘tom pow lagos the big picture’).
You can read some of Tom Pow’s work at the Scottish Poetry Library
