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Gordon Meade

b.1957

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Gordon Meade lives in Fife. Since 2000 he has divided his time between his own writing and devising creative writing courses for vulnerable young people in a variety of different settings. He has been a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow attached to the University of Dundee, and the writer-in-residence for Dundee Libraries, and for a number of years he lived and worked in London. He has published thirteen full-length collections of poetry.

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  • Earthworms
  • The Rook Shoot
  • The Potter’s Wheel
  • Catfish
  • Beyond The Ninth Wave
  • The Price of Enlightenment
  • Lord of All
  • Bass Rock

Selected Bibliography

Singing Seals (Chapman Publications, 1991)
The Scrimshaw Sailor (Chapman Publishing, 1996)
A Man At Sea (diehard, 2003)
The Cleaner Fish (Arrowhead Press, 2006)
The Private Zoo (Arrowhead Press, 2008)
The Familiar (Arrowhead Press, 2011)
Sounds of the Real World (Cultured Llama Publishing, 2013)
Les Animots (Cultured Llama Publishing, 2015)
The Year of the Crab (Cultured Llama Publishing, 2017)
Zoospeak (Enthusiastic Press, 2020) with photographs by animal activist Jo-Anne McArthur
In Transit (Enthusiastic Press, 2022)
EX-Posed: Animal Elegies (Lantern Publishing & Media, 2023)
Selected Poems: Beyond the Ninth Wave (Into Poetry, 2025)

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In Conversation with Gordon Meade

21 July 2025
A special one-off recording with Scottish poet Gordon Meade in conversation with David Cameron of Into Poetry and Samuel Tongue of the Scottish Poetry Library, chatting about, among other things, the process of putting together a career retrospective, or...
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