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Morag Anderson

b. 1971

Morag Anderson looking to her right. She has short blonde hair and wears a blazer and stripped t-shirt.
POEMS BIBLIOGRAPHY

Morag Anderson is a Scottish poet based in Highland Perthshire. Her debut chapbook, Sin Is Due to Open in a Room Above Kitty’s, is published by Fly on the Wall Press, 2021.  Her poetry appears in Finished Creatures, Gutter, Popshot Quarterly, Skylight 47, The Broken Spine Arts Collective, and The Scotsman as well as several anthologies. She was placed in the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2021, the Edwin Morgan Trust Competition 2021, the Blue Nib Chapbook VI Contest, shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize 2019 and 2021, and won Over the Edge New Poet 2018 as well as the Clochoderick Prize 2018.

In 2019 she was invited to Galway as a featured reader at the Yehuda Amichai International Poetry Festival.

Morag collaborated with poets Audrey Molloy, Maeve McKenna, and Barbara DeCoursey Roy to produce the chapbook How Bright the Wings Drive Us which won the Dreich Alliance Competition 2021. The chapbook has been selected as part of the Emily Dickinson Museum’s Phosphorescence Series 2022.

She was featured poet of the month for Broken Spine Arts Collective in December 2021, and has twice performed at StAnza. Morag has been a featured reader with Cultivating Voices Live Poetry and Not The Time To Be Silent.

Morag is currently working on her first full collection.

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Read the poems

  • Arrival 
  • Loving Has No Safety, None
  • Study of a Lady in Anguish
  • Last Boat Home
  • Portrait of My Father with a Saw
  • Hollowing a Mountain
  • Glasgow Coma Scale
  • Hunger for a Fruited Thorn
  • The Full Tenderness of Parting
  • The Unheard Testimony of Agnes Wilson

Selected Bibliography

Sin Is Due to Open in a Room Above Kitty’s by Morag Anderson

  • https://www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page/sin-is-due-to-open-in-a-room-above-kitty-s-by-morag-anderson

How Bright the Wings Drive Us by Morag Anderson, Barbara Decoursey Roy, Audrey Molloy, Maeve McKenna

  • https://hybriddreich.co.uk/how-bright-the-wings-drive-us/

The Broken Spine Artist Collective 3

  • https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/product/the-broken-spine-artist-collective-third-edition/

The Darg – anthology

  • https://www.poetsrepublic.online/

Beyond The Swelkie – anthology

  • https://tippermuirbooks.co.uk/?product=beyond-the-swelkie-george-mackay-brown

Pure Slush Birth Lifespan Vol. 1 – anthology

  • https://pureslush.com/store/anthologies-themed/birth-lifespan-vol-1/

Summer Anywhere – anthology

  • https://hybriddreich.co.uk/product/summer-anywhere-pre-order/

Dead Good Scots – anthology and art installation

  • https://www.hughbryden.com/?p=1304

Island & Sea Chapbook – anthology

  • https://scottishwriterscentre.co.uk/2020/06/26/swc-chapbooks-series-a-demo-of-the-first-island-sea/

Arbroath Anthology

  • https://federationofwritersscotland.com/arbroath-anthology-archive/

High Tide – anthology

  • https://federationofwritersscotland.com/fws-virtual-bookshop/

From the Library Catalogue

Publications by Morag Anderson

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