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David Ross Linklater

b. 1990

young man with curly hair, beard and dark rimmed glasses standing in front of a rural landscape
POEMS BIBLIOGRAPHY

David Ross Linklater is a poet from Balintore, Easter Ross. He is the author of four pamphlets, most recently Star Muck Bourach (Wish Fulfillment Press, 2022). He was the winner of the 10th Ó Bhéal International Writing Competition in 2023, joint-winner of the 2022 Neil Gunn Writing Competition and received a Dewar Arts Award in 2015. He has been shortlisted for the Janet Coats Memorial Award, the Edwin Morgan Award and a New Writers Award, and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. His work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Butcher’s Dog, The Dark Horse, bath magg and Gutter. He lives in Glasgow, where he works as a screen printer. 

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Selected Bibliography

Star Muck Bourach (Wish Fulfillment, 2022)
Star Muck Bourach digital album with Phillip Jon Taylor (bandcamp.com)
Scenes from a God Movie (Speculative Books, 2021)
Black Box (Speculative Books, 2018)

 

Further Information

Website: www.davidlinklaterpoetry.com 

From the Library Catalogue

Publications about David Ross Linklater
Publications by David Ross Linklater

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