Born in 1967, Gary Robertson has lived and worked in Dundee all of his life. His love of writing, in particular poetry, has led him to performing regular live spots locally.Together with another Dundonian poet, Mark Thomson, he formed Tribal Tongues, a street poetry partnership characterised by energetic live performances. Pure Dundee is written in the Dundonian dialect and humorously covers some of the same ground as Irvine Welsh does in prose.