Skip to content

Scottish Poetry Library

Register/Sign in
Shopping Bag Shopping Bag
Bringing people and poems together
  • Home
  • COVID-19
    • Re-Opening FAQ
  • Poetry
    • Poems
    • Poets
    • Our National Poet
    • Podcasts
    • Best Scottish Poems
    • Poetry and Mindfulness
    • Champions 2020
    • Posters
    • Publishers
  • Library
    • Become a borrower
    • Catalogue
    • Collections
    • Ask a librarian
    • Copyright enquiries
  • Learning
    • National Poetry Day 2019
    • National Poetry Day archive
    • SQA set texts
    • Learning resources
    • New to poetry?
    • Advice for poets
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Exhibitions
    • Venue hire
    • List an event
  • Shop
    • Scotland’s Makar
    • Poetry Pamphlet Cards
    • Pocket Poets
    • Scottish Poetry
    • Help
  • About us
    • Our story
    • Our people
    • Our projects
    • Jobs
    • Our building
    • FAQs
    • Find us
  • Support us
    • Become a Friend
    • Donate
    • Easy Fundraising
  • Blog
Shopping BagShopping Bag
Ask a librarian
  • Home
  • >
  • Poetry
  • >
  • Poets
  • >
  • Linda Anderson
Donate Donate icon Ask a Librarian Ask a Librarian icon

Linda Anderson

b.1950

Linda Anderson

Linda Anderson was born in Aberdeen. After attending Aberdeen University, she began teaching at Newcastle University in 1978, where she has worked ever since. She became Professor of Modern English and American Literature in 1999, and was Head of the School of English from 1999 to 2007. 

Linda Anderson has been deeply involved in establishing creative writing at Newcastle University, setting up and running the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts. The centre runs a program of events and projects, including an AHRC-funded project on the newly acquired archive of Bloodaxe Books, entitled ‘The Poetics of the Archive: Creative and Community Engagement with the Bloodaxe Archive’. She has published a number of critical books and essays, amongst them a monograph on Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Bishop: Lines of Connection (EUP, 2013). With poet Jo Shapcott, she edited Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery (Bloodaxe, 2002). Her poems have been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Review, and Agenda. Her pamphlet Greenhouse was published in 2013 by Mariscat Press.

From the Library Catalogue

Publications by Linda Anderson

Share this
Facebook
Twitter
Email
  • Newsletter signup
  • Accessibility
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
Scottish Poetry Library
5 Crichton's Close, Canongate
Edinburgh EH8 8DT
Tel: +44 (0)131 557 2876
© Scottish Poetry Library 2021.
The Scottish Poetry Library is a registered charity (No. SCO23311).
City of Edinburgh logo Green Arts Initiative logo Creative Scotland logo
By leaves we live

The Scottish Poetry Library is staffed weekdays from 10am – 2pm and is providing a limited service including postal loans and Click & Collect. For details, click COVID-19 in the menu bar above. Dismiss