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Gerry Loose

b.1948

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Gerry Loose has a background in horticulture and ecology; his poetry is informed by a wide knowledge of gardening and environmental issues, and is to be found in gardens as well as books. He has been Poet in Residence at the Botanic Gardens of Glasgow and at Montpellier, France’s oldest botanic garden. He has also made work for Hidden Gardens, Glasgow and Port Logan Botanic Gardens.

He has been a recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and a Creative Scotland Award, and has been Creative Director of the Peace Garden.

Loose’s poetry and poetic writings are gathered in seven book-length collections and six pamphlets (see bibliography below), and he is also the editor of The Holistic Handbook and The Botanical Basho.

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  • the island in September
  • from The Deer Path To My Door

Selected Bibliography

Knockariddera (Galdragon Press, 1991)
The Elementary Particles (Taranis Books, 1993)
A Measure (Mythic Horse Press, 1996)
Tongues of Stone (Mariscat Press, 1998)
Eitgal (Mariscat Press, 2001)
being time (Galdragon Press, 2001)
Printed on Water: new and selected poems (Shearsman Books, 2007)
From Kyoto to Carbeth: poems & plants from the hills (Collins Gallery & Scottish Poetry Library, 2008)
the deer path to my door (Oystercatcher Press, 2009)
that person himself (Shearsman Books, 2009)
Fault Lines (Vagabond Voices, 2014)
An Oakwoods Almanac (Shearsman Books, 2015)

 

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Gerry Loose’s website

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Publications about Gerry Loose
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Gerry Loose

October 2014
We travel to Faslane, home of the UK's nuclear deterrent, to talk to Gerry Loose. He guides us around the area, sharing his thoughts on the radical nature of landscape poetry.
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